Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

I make appearances, but I really want to spend more time fishing. That is what I really enjoy doing with my spare time.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.