Quotes About Appearance

the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Wide-cut slacks gave her a sunken appearance from behind, calling to mind an old remark of Moffett's. Legs for days but ass for the next five minutes.

tall man in his thirties wearing jeans with rolled bottoms, a tiny-collared white shirt, and a red paisley tie appeared. Longish dark hair was combed to look careless. Black-rimmed glasses and red-brown saddle shoes added up to hipster, not corporate lawyer.

When we were little," I said, louder, "people used to mistake the two of us for twins. At least, that's what my mom tells me. Ask me, I never saw it. For one thing, I'm obviously a lot better-looking than he is. But enough about that, I don't want him crying on his special day.

The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.

From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed. The silk was tight and under it the muscles worked slow and easy. I saw weight there, and control, and, brother, those are things I like in a woman.

if there were a genuine knight of faith in our midst we would be unlikely to recognize him: in terms of outward appearance, he is just another one of our neighbors taking a stroll in the park.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

The appearance of antisemitism in a culture is the first symptom of a disease, the early warning sign of collective breakdown.

It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.

Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins." I blinked. "What? Why? What's George got to do with anything?" "What a person looks like doesn't bother him much, or hadn't you noticed?

George had his faraway look, the one that made him look like a constipated owl.

Take his appearance. There was something about it that acted as a trigger to one's worst instincts. His face was uniquely slappable - a nun would have ached to punch him - while his backside cried out to heaven for a well-placed kick.

Sorry for what? Your appearance? Your character? Wait, I bet it's your smell. Twenty-four hours of terror, violence, chases, and being for all intents and purposes dead plays havoc with the armpits. Don't let Lockwood step downwind of you tonight, that's all I'm saying.

So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side of a second doughnut in her life. What was any of that to me?

He had a very slender face, with a long nose and a dark mop of unruly hair.

His features were blunt and brutish, as if drawn at speed by an untalented child.

your dress. Too tight.' 'You think so? It looks all right to me.' 'You're only looking at the front, love.

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.