Gilded Beauty Quotes

#1. Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Ritchie Blackmore

#2. The Madame deplored fat men. They had no laps, and of what use is a lapless human? Nevertheless, she gave him the common courtesy of a sniff at his trouser cuffs and immediately backed away, twitching her nose and showing her teeth.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#3. The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Warren Buffett

#4. The spiritual fire defines the strength of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

Billy Corgan

#6. One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.

Gail Honeyman

#8. So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

Jillian Michaels

#9. In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

#10. She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad ... gilded with impermanence ...

John Geddes

#12. Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human, are always incomplete.

Joost A.M. Meerloo

#13. in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

Renate Dorrestein

#14. The knowledgeable gypsy eyes scanned the dairy-maid skin, the gilded hair, the long hands, jewelled to display their beauty while the Master, serenely smiling, returned the compliment under relaxed lids.

Dorothy Dunnett

#15. Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Arthur J. Lamb

#16. True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#17. Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

Mary MacLane

#18. She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.

A.S. Peterson

#19. He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

Matthew Arnold