Quotes About Appearance

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.

Were we in the habit of looking beyond the specific content of ideologies and doctrines, we should see that to claim kinship with one of them rather than some other does not at all imply much expenditure of sagacity. Those following one party imagine they differ from those following another, whereas all, once they choose, join each other underneath, participate in one and the same nature, and vary only in appearance, by the mask they assume.

Omul e f?r? îndoial? o apariÅ£ie extraordinar?, dar nu o reuÅŸit?.

A master of every error, I could at last explore a world of appearances, of frivolous enigmas. Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujeres de bien, ¿eh, condenada? ¿Llevó medias alguna vez tu madre? ¿Peinóse como tú, que siempre estás dale que tienes con el cacho de espejo? Toma, para que te acuerdes...".

She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an unmade bed.

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

The most palpable facts, are exactly the contrary to what we should expect.

Appearances proved nothing and everything.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Seen from a distance, Raoul Nathan was a very fine meteor. Fashion accepted his ways and his appearance. His borrowed republicanism gave him, for the time being, that Jansenist harshness assumed by the defenders of the popular cause, while they inwardly scoff at it--a quality not without charm in the eyes of women.

There are husbands, tall and of superior intellect, whose wives have lovers who are ugly, short, or stupid.

but life went on, even at times like this, and it was surprising how easy it was to keep going as though nothing had changed. i found it strange that i could walk down the street and appear normal, just like anyone else. that i could be in complete turmoil inside, and yet my reflection in a shop window could look the same as it ever had.

I started out thinking I'd just have to look the part to get by, and before I knew it the poison had seeped in and changed me inside.

He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either...some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.

As a model, I needed makeup. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It leveled my playing field.

If one day I have wrinkles and I don't like it, I don't know if I'll cut myself but maybe... a little botox, fillers?

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that in it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That's great if you like who you are – not so great if you don't.

Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

put his hands through her hair when he kissed her. Now it wasn't honey blond, it was just hair, messy, in-need-of-a-wash, bed-head hair. It matched the rest of her, the tired lines in her forehead, the dark shadows under her eyes, the paleness in her cheeks.