Quotes About Appearance

who goes to the beauty shop and spends a small fortune.

I watched her, a tall girl with long hair so black that under the stage lighting it coruscated like moonlit liquid. It cascaded in waves around the smooth contours of her shoulders, past the alluring shadows of her waist, around the upturned curve of her ass. She was tall and fine-boned, with delicate white skin, high cheekbones, and small, high breasts. Put the hair up, add a little couture, and you'd have the world's classiest courtesan.

Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked young, but her dress and mannerisms were sophisticated.

When I had found a payphone in a suitably innocuous location, I inserted a phone card and punched in Tatsu's number. I could have just ignored him, but it was hard to predict what he might do in response to that. Better to know what he wanted, while maintaining the appearance of cooperation.

she found Robinson among the hundreds of New Yorkers who managed to make a great amount of money for doing almost nothing at all but was pretty as god and possessed of a voice like a French horn, so that at crucial parties he could say practically nothing and leave the impression among the more musically eared that profundity of the eternal sort had passed near.

How people look is yet another thing that they are now responsible for deciding for themselves.

What looks attractive in prospect doesn't always look so good in practice.

he truly suffered . . . not as some unbelievers say, that he suffered only in appearance. They are the ones who are only an appearance

1a Christ died 2a For our sins 3a In accordance with the scriptures 4a And he was buried. 1b Christ was raised 2b On the third day 3b In accordance with the scriptures 4b And he appeared to Cephas.

no long hair or beards)

I can see your dirtypillows.

Her huge blue eyes and toothy red-lipsticked grin suggested a woman who might be only minutes away from a catastrophic mental breakdown.

Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.

In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.

In the thought world Mark creates, the apocalyptic Son of Man who is about to appear in glory (13: 24–31) is the same as the Son of Man who came forty years earlier to die on the cross (8: 31, 38; 9: 9–13, 31).

concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.

The Mahaparinirvana Sutra says, "All things are impermanent. This is the law of appearing and disappearing. When appearing and disappearing disappear, then this stillness is bliss.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin said: "Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

There's a reason I always look nice when I go to work." I kept a scowl on my face while she hustled me upstairs. "Because you'll get fired if you look like a slob?" "Because, my little grouch, it makes me feel better on the inside if I like how I look on the outside.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions.

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.

El 28% de las mujeres de la página web declaraban ser rubias, un número bastante superior a la media, lo cual indica grandes dosis de tinte, de mentira, o de ambos.