Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

Outward appearances mean everything.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Personality affects appearance, so I always think positively.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!