Beautiful Woman

Famous quotes containing the words beautiful woman, beautiful and/or woman:

    “A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action. A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”
    —Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)

    “The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
    —Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988)