I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

The kind of world I’m endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

While you make pretty speeches I’m being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance

Rue gave a little mental sigh. No one would ever describe her as deadly attractive. She brightened a bit. Perhaps she could aspire to just deadly?

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Her vibe is pretty.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.

Why on earth is the ‘New Yorker’ publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the ‘New Yorker’ ever run photos of cute boys just because they’re cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?

I’m pretty brand-less. If I wear a brand, then you can’t tell. I’m not about the logos

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived

She keeps her Moet et Chandon

In her pretty cabinet

‘Let them eat cake’, she says

Just like Marie Antoinette

Isn’t it pretty to think so.

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

My cars must be beautiful. But more than that, they must not stop out on the circuit. For then people will say, ‘What a pity, it was so pretty.’

I really want to go to Ireland. It’s really green I hear and very pretty. So I’d really like to go there and spend a nice amount of time because I always travel but for like a second. I never get to enjoy the places.

Do you tear yourself apart to entertain like me? Do the people whisper ’bout you on the train like me? Saying that you shouldn’t waste your pretty face like me.

Man, look at you, been walking in here looking all pretty and angry and mean and good

So many pretty girls around me and they waking up the rocket

I can take them off, but they’re pretty strong

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can’t even describe that feeling. That’s why I like the best – the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I’m training for a specific fight or not. I don’t like to mess too much with it.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

I’m a pretty happy guy.

I’m pretty confident and, at the same time, I’m pretty insecure. I’m like a walking conflict.

Pretty, pretty please, don’t you ever ever feel like you’re less than, less than perfect.

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn’t give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.

I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, ‘Wow!’ but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective.

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn’t like me.

They were the better team today; they beat us pretty good. The worst, I think, that I’ve been beaten in a long time.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

We cut flowers because we think they’re pretty, we cut ourselves because we think we’re not.

She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?

In 1976: We women are doing pretty well. We’re almost back to where we were in the twenties.

I been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i’ll be here.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if you’re ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That’s my game – I’m a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive

I got married, going to become father soon, being No. 1 in the sport that I love with all my heart. I mean, it’s pretty awesome.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me.

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn’t work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.