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- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright
- Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
- For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — Unknown Author
- War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner
- The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of… — Dean Koontz
- When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and… — Louis Agassiz
- It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton
- There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — Richard Dawkins