Quotes About Appearance

he looked like some hoosier just starting for home from California, with store clothes and a biled shirt on.

It has façades of a hardware store, a hotel, a restaurant, a bar, and a bank. Real cars are parked in front.

Es genügt ja nicht, Macht und Reichtum zu erlangen; die Menschen wollen tugendhaft erscheinen und sich tugendhaft fühlen.

On Law & Order and CSI, female cops look svelte and sexy in their uniforms. I look like the Michelin Man, only armed, and less graceful.

Uma vez teve a ideia de aparar as sobrancelhas para que crescessem mais cerradas e quase acabou raspando tudo e ficando sem sobrancelha nenhuma.

She didn't use any makeup but lipstick, a bright carmine red that emphasized everything she said.

Dad had finally allowed Cappy to come over that day. It was a grueling hot afternoon so we were inside playing Bionic Commando, quietly as we could, with the fan on. As always, my mother was sleeping. There was a soft tap. I answered the door, and there was Linda Wishkob, her bulging eyes, her tight blue uniform, her sweaty, dull, makeup-less face. Those long fingernails on the stubby fingers suddenly struck me as sinister, though they were painted an innocent pink

A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

My mother reads the Bible every morning," Dianne said. "She's told me a million times: 'Man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart.' From Samuel.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Tell me, Wittgenstein's asked a friend, why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating? His friend replied, Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth. Wittgenstein replied, Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?

Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example, the sky were black? Could we not then say, only by black light do they appear to us in their full colors?

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

There were two faces pressed cheek to cheek and looking at the camera: an overly tanned older man, grimacing and shiny, and the trophy wife. They were holding up champagne flutes in hands loaded down with bling. #ilovemyshipwreckedparents. "Hashtag asskiss," said Rafe. "Parents? She's not even his mother!" said Sukey. "Unless she had him when she was three," said Jen. I quit the app.

Personally, I felt no urge to hook up with James. He was handsome enough, or whatever, but he reminded me of margarine. Sneakers that were still stiff from the store. Maybe a roll of thick, bleached paper towels.

Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

She looked so cute with her face all swollen and scrunched up like that. It made him think this must be what little evil elves must look like.

Capitu, apesar daqueles olhos que o Diabo lhe deu... Você já reparou nos olhos dela? São assim de cigana oblíqua e dissimulada.

With that, the years slipped away, though not her beauty, because she had never had any.

A cabeça de Justiniano Vilela, - se se pode chamar cabeça a uma jaca metida numa gravata de cinco voltas, - era um exemplo da prodigalidade da natureza quando quer fazer cabeças grandes.

Os leitores ficarão conhecendo está nova personagem com a simples indicação de que era um segundo volume de Augusta; bela, como ela; elegante, como ela; vaidosa, como ela. Tudo isto quer dizer que eram ambas as mais afáveis inimigas que pode haver neste mundo (O segredo do Augusta)

Capitu, apesar daqueles olhos que o diabo lhe deu... Você já reparou nos olhos dela? São assim de cigana oblíqua e dissimulada. Pois apesar deles, poderia passar, se não fosse a vaidade e a adulação. Oh! A adulação!

What is important is the general description of the domestic milieu and that has been shown here—vulgarity of character, love of gaudy appearance and clamor, a slackness of will, the rule of whim, and more. Out of that earth and that manure this flower was born.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis