Quotes About Appearance

Corrections had also sized his orange jumpsuit wrong—which they were known to do with child molesters and other particularly repugnant inmates—making him appear smaller and slighter

We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most important?" "A friend on the Appropriations committee.

Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and not a spindly six-eight either, but 232 pounds of meat and bone stacked vertically beneath a lop-sided smile and a defiant wedge of hair that gave him the appearance of an unfinished sculpture. His size always triggered unreasonable expectations.

The Illusion Model

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.

He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was. She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side. She was exquisite.

Her eyelashes lay on her cheek, but they were not extraordinarily thick or long. Her eyebrows would benefit from plucking, but they were elegantly curved.

1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

When he came home I was well groomed, fragrant, feminine. He never saw a laundry bag, a dust cloth, or a hair curler. I hope he never knew that such things existed!

A busy woman can't spend whole days in front of mirrors, but she ought to have them all over the house (which improves the décor, too) and make a point of glancing at herself every time she passes one. It's a form of narcissism that pays off. If you are pleased with what you see, chances are he will be, too.

One rule: Never let your husband see you exercising. No woman rolling around on the floor looks really adorable after she's passed her third birthday.

Treat your neck the same way you do your face.

Treat your neck the same way you do your face. It's a delicate area, and the first to betray age.

Facial muscles can sag quickly, but there are some easy ways of keeping them toned up. Each one of the following takes just about ten seconds. You've got THAT much time! 1. Open your mouth as wide as you can and at the same time purse your lips as if you're trying to whistle. Hold it for ten seconds. 2. Put your thumb and forefinger inside your mouth and try to push your fingers out--at the same time forcing your cheeks in. Hold for another count of ten.

Food! I say 'No, thank you' to many lovely things every day. Recently I admired the slim figure of a magazine editor. 'That's your formula?' I asked her. 'I starve,' she sighed. 'I'm the hungriest woman in New York.

A short-haired Barbie would be an oxymoron.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

Because he was male, and to please himself, he took a slow, masculine appraisal: from the top of her head down to those unbelievably ugly black cop shoes. Then back up again. And really found himself really wishing she'd gotten doughnut-dumpy.