
Top 100 Be Pretty Quotes
#1. Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
Ward Cunningham
#2. When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, "above all others," you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit.
Martin Amis
#3. I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
Charles Lamb
#4. I see you again, it won't be pretty. I find out she sees you again, you'll be breathin' through a fuckin' tube. You get me?
Kristen Ashley
#5. When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? ... The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty ...
W.E.B. Du Bois
#6. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Tim Roth
#7. You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful.
Louis De Bernieres
#8. No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
Gillian Jacobs
#9. Love is like music. You have to work at it. Love is ugly and painful sometimes, but it can also be pretty fucking awesome once you figure out how to play the right notes to the right rhythm
Kendall Grey
#11. A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.
Judd Apatow
#12. When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.
Mariska Hargitay
#13. The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
#14. Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.
Lukas Haas
#15. I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
Cary Fukunaga
#16. Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.
Sharon Salzberg
#17. Mothers were sacred. Mothers were not expected to be pretty.
Bernard Cornwell
#18. There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
Christian Louboutin
#19. People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
Donald Knuth
#20. I've always tried to be pretty healthy, eating well and exercising regularly. I definitely give myself treats.
Christina Applegate
#21. Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.
Nick Hornby
#22. Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
Elsie De Wolfe
#23. I've been eight years with this beautiful little thing and I've got a partner for him now. After eight years of trying to unify the titles, it's going to be pretty hard to give this up.
Joe Calzaghe
#24. Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?
Rosamund Hodge
#25. Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
LeBron James
#26. Who you are when you are tested might not be pretty, but it's always real.
Rachel Friedman
#27. I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100; it's going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it's going to be pretty tough - I can't wait.
Georges St-Pierre
#28. You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
Anthony Hopkins
#29. With success comes expectation and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.
Rory McIlroy
#30. The world's champ should be pretty like me!
Muhammad Ali
#31. I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.
Brian Andreas
#32. It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career because I get a chance to learn from them. There is so much you can learn from them. You can just follow them and you'll be pretty safe.
Katrina Kaif
#33. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
Martina Navratilova
#34. Because if someone owed me several thousand, and then stole from my house, and then I found out he had the money and didn't pay me back, I'd be pretty pissed," Hackett said.
E.C. Diskin
#35. If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.
Jason Terry
#36. "but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time." - said the Wizard
"As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy.
from "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
#37. Watson retorted: 'Well I don't think we're for anything.
We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must
be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating having a good lunch.' We did have a good lunch, too.
Richard Dawkins
#38. It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.
Jenny O'Connell
#39. It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
Olivia Munn
#40. She's fourteen, which means that any kind of normal interaction with her is doomed to failure. We used to be pretty good friends, but fourteen-year-old girls are psychotic. Her main interests are yelling at Mom and not eating whatever is for dinner.
Jesse Andrews
#41. Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
Laetitia Casta
#42. If you like a thing, and only one place in town serves that thing, you're going to be pretty excited by that thing, regardless of quality.
Joseph Fink
#43. You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt
#44. To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
Paul McCartney
#45. I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.
Max Minghella
#46. Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#47. I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.
Dave Willis
#48. When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
Jeff Lemire
#49. If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.
James Altucher
#50. It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
Tori Spelling
#51. In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
Dan Miller
#52. Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
#53. When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open
up.
Iyanla Vanzant
#54. Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs
Muhammad Ali
#55. A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
Amy Heckerling
#56. When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.
Sprague Grayden
#57. If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
Jack Falahee
#58. A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique."
"Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy.."
"Guild member?"
"Not any more, sir."
"Oh? How did you leave the guild?"
"Through the roof, sir. But I'm pretty certain I know what I did wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#59. I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about ...
Cornelia Parker
#60. Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers.
Derek Drouin
#61. The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
Elisha Cuthbert
#62. I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
Linus Torvalds
#63. The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.
Shaquille O'Neal
#64. I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.
Elena Satine
#65. But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.
Amy Smart
#66. When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.
Stephen Baldwin
#67. Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
Max Greenfield
#68. I used to be strong,but now I am weak.
I used to be pretty,but now I look sick.
E. Lockhart
#69. It can't be pretty without being ugly first.
Kambri Crews
#70. He could take one look at me- at the ashtray, the bottle, the four pots of coffee, my face, and my gut set like a stone on the white band of the towel- he could take one look at me and be pretty sure i ran on heavy fuel.
Martin Amis
#71. You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.
Gregg Allman
#72. I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
Rashida Jones
#73. She was not stunningly beautiful. She could be pretty when she felt like it.
Lloyd Alexander
#74. I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
Kristin Gore
#75. I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
Jeremy Piven
#76. The real problem devolves around class lines once again: it's the street hormones that folks without insurance, or folks who are too young for prescriptions without parental okay, use. Sometimes those hormones can be pretty rough.
Kate Bornstein
#77. As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
Viola Davis
#78. No, she didn't want to find a cure for cancer or make the world a better place for an endangered owl species. She just wanted to be pretty.
Devan Sipher
#79. I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.
James D. Watson
#80. No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.
Lauren Beukes
#81. Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
Max Tundra
#82. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey
#83. People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.
Paul Reed Smith
#84. If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
Stef Penney
#85. If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
George R R Martin
#86. All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy's credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn't be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.
Hannah Harrington
#87. I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.
Yoko Ono
#88. Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
Aloe Blacc
#89. Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#90. I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
Mackenzie Davis
#91. There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories.
Rex Stout
#92. Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.
Michael J. Fox
#93. I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.
Sophia Amoruso
#94. It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.
Duane Hanson
#95. I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon ... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.
Luke Bryan
#96. Her name is Feather. Feather is apparently very famous for choreographing several hit Broadway shows. She also must be pretty hard up for cash if she'd agree to choreograph a snoozer like Braid! But whatever.
Meg Cabot
#97. I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
Zach Braff
#98. Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.
Jaime Pressly
#99. In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner
#100. Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.
Kim Kardashian
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