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Quotes About Appearance

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
~ Haruki Murakami
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
~ Haruki Murakami
You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it's got nothing to do with you, but you're not really like that. In your own way, you're out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can't tell by looking at you.
~ Haruki Murakami
She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.
~ Haruki Murakami
Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
~ Haruki Murakami
to me my face in the mirror looked like a virtual fragment of my self that had been split in two. The self there was the one I hadn't chosen. It wasn't even a physical reflection.
~ Haruki Murakami
Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.
~ Haruki Murakami
The girl was rotten inside. Peel off a layer of that beautiful skin, and you'd find nothing but rotten flesh.
~ Haruki Murakami
Aquilo que os nossos olhos vêem nem sempre corresponde à realidade.
~ Haruki Murakami
Era abbastanza bella, ma molto comune. Il tipo di ragazza che in un serial televisivo fa la parte dell'amica della protagonista, quella che va a bere qualcosa con lei al bar, e le chiede: «Cosa ti succede? Non mi sembri molto in forma di questi tempi.» Fa solo una breve apparizione e appena scompare dallo schermo nessuno si ricorda più che faccia avesse.
~ Haruki Murakami
My self in the mirror is just a physical reflection.
~ Haruki Murakami
Single male CEOs take bigger financial risks in order to appear more attractive.
~ Harvard Business School Press
His father sat back in his chair, a scarecrow of a man, all angles and laugh lines, his head tilted slightly to the left, as it did when he was either genuinely taken with a notion or wished to appear so.
~ Haven Kimmel
They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just
~ Heather O'Neill
I stuck a barette with a silver star into my black hair. If I was going to be popping my head in and out of bars like a wife who was looking for her husband who had just got paid and was squandering all the money, at least I was going to look unbelievably fantastic while I was doing it.
~ Heather O'Neill
shirtsleeves rolled up to expose tanned, muscled forearms. He looked sensational, even better than she remembered. No man should have so much; it wasn't
~ Helen Brooks
Went to Jude's party tonight in a tight little black dress to show off figure feeling v. full of myself... ... There's nothing worse than people telling you you looked tired. They might as well have done with it and say you look like five kinds of shit.
~ Helen Fielding
You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
~ Helen Fielding
C'est horrible de remarquer la différence de regard que les gens portent sur vous quand vous êtes grosse et quand vous ne l'êtes pas, quand vous êtes toute pomponnée et quand vous êtes juste normale. Pas étonnant que les femmes soient aussi peu sûres d'elles.
~ Helen Fielding
However, on glimpsing in shop window realized outfit insane. Now am on bus, remember also that corset-ike nature of dress is torture when sitting down. One's rolls of fat are squezzed together like dough being kneaded in a food processor.
~ Helen Fielding
Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.
~ Helen Fielding
Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.
~ Helen Fielding
All you do is not eat any food which you have to pay for. So at the start of the diet you're a bit porky and no one asks you out to dinner. Then you lose weight and get a bit leggy and shag-me hippy and people start taking you out for meals. So then you put a few pounds on, the invitations trail off and you start losing weight again.
~ Helen Fielding
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
~ Sarah Cooper