Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.

Donald Trump insult women. We've seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to ten. We've seen him embarrass women on TV and on Twitter. We saw him after the first debate spend nearly a week denigrating a former Miss Universe in the harshest, most personal terms. So yes, this is who Donald Trump is.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

God has saved you to make your appearance in the last days.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.

God loveth the clean.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

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?

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.