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Quotes About Appearance

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.
~ Frank Zappa
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
~ Franz Kafka
I didn't want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.
~ Franz Kafka
È ridicolo come ti sei bardato per questo mondo.
~ Franz Kafka
It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors remembered from your youth. That is how it will be, only that in reality it will be you yourself standing there, today and later, with a body and a real head, and so with a brow too, to strike with your hand.
~ Franz Kafka
Recently, (...) I saw a girl buying the Tribuna (...), obviously because of the fashion article. She wasn't especially well dressed, not *yet*.
~ Franz Kafka
Would you call it a conversation if the other person is silent and, to keep up the appearance of a conversation, you try to substitute for him, and so imitate him, and so parody him, and so parody yourself.
~ Franz Kafka
he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work
~ Franz Kafka
it looks worn to them in the mirror... almost not wearable at all.
~ Franz Kafka
Only sometimes in the evening, when they come home late from a party, it looks worn to them in the mirror... almost not wearable any more.
~ Franz Kafka
their heads looked as if they had been beaten flat on top and their features shaped in the pain of the beating
~ Franz Kafka
My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.
~ Paula Pell
I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in L.A.; later, he agreed to shoot the cover for my album 'Call Me Irresponsible' for free. I was so fat at the time, and he made me look as good as I possibly could.
~ Michael Buble
I had one critic who wrote: 'Finty Williams is like her mother in looks if not in talent.' It'll be on my gravestone.
~ Finty Williams
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
~ Adam McKay
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
~ Nicole Kidman
The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
~ Cameron Russell
I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.
~ Jane Seymour
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
~ Hedy Lamarr
My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
~ Kaia Gerber
My work means that a dressy outfit and full face of make-up is everyday wear, even in lockdown. But it's such a relief to take it all off after the show and know there's no prospect of having to find a second wind at the other end of the day, putting the armour back on again.
~ Susanna Reid
I've had sideburns since I was 16, but back then, a gust of wind would have blown them off.
~ Guy Martin
A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
~ Cathy Guisewite
It's weird, but Scion is kind of cool. I couldn't drive one because I'd look like one of those McDonald's Happy Meal toys with giant heads sticking out the window.
~ Brian Posehn