Appearance famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
-- A. C. Benson -
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
-- Adi Da -
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
-- Alanna Ubach -
[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.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.
-- Amanda Hocking -
Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
-- Anaxagoras -
American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
-- Andy Rooney -
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.
-- Anne Tyler -
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.
-- Annie Besant -
I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.
-- Anthony Daniels -
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
-- Barbara Mertz -
Personality affects appearance, so I always think positively.
-- Barbara Palvin -
The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.
-- Boss Tweed -
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
-- Boy George -
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.
-- Bruce Mau -
In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
-- Byron Katie -
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
-- Camille Paglia -
I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.
-- Carey Mulligan -
I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
-- Carl Lewis -
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
-- Carl Menger -
I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.
-- Cecily Strong -
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
-- Charles Van Doren -
But we're lost in a world of appearances now.
-- Claire Messud -
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.
-- Claudio Silvestrin -
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
-- Colin Powell -
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
-- Confucius -
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
-- Dalai Lama -
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
-- Daniel Handler -
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.
-- Daniel Quinn -
I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.
-- Daniela Hantuchova -
She was making great money at personal appearances.
-- David Gest -
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
-- David Selby -
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
-- Don Herold -
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.
-- Donald A. Norman -
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
-- Douglas Bader -
I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
-- Duane Michals -
When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.
-- Dwight Edwards -
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
-- Edmund Wilson -
Do not judge from mere appearances...
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...
-- Ellen Key -
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
-- Emily Post -
I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.
-- Emraan Hashmi -
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
-- Enya -
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance
-- Frank Langella -
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.
-- Friedrich Engels -
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
-- Fritz Todt -
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
-- George Eliot -
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
-- Georges Bernanos -
My appearance is talking and I like what it is saying.
-- Georgette Mosbacher -
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.
-- Guy Finley -
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
-- Harry Shearer -
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
-- Helen Reddy -
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
-- Horace -
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.
-- Horace Bushnell -
[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.
-- Hugh Everett III -
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
-- Isaac Newton -
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.
-- Jack London -
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
-- James Anthony Froude -
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
-- Janice Dickinson -
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
-- Jean Rostand -
Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts
-- Jim Davis -
Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
-- Jodi Kantor -
I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.
-- Jodi Sweetin -
Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.
-- Johannes Scotus Eriugena -
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.
-- John Berger -
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
-- John Irving -
All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.
-- John Lydgate -
All is not golde that outward shewith bright.
-- John Lydgate -
I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
-- John Malkovich -
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
-- John Naisbitt -
There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.
-- Jorge M. Perez -
The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.
-- Joseph Addison
