Quotes About Appearance

The trouble with alcohol is that it makes you feel young and look old.

You owe it to your public to remain fuckable.

Critics love Elvis Costello because they all look like him.

Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know.

Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.

3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

She loves the way Vic looks, using the world debonair instead of dapper.

Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that'll be more true than any of the bodies you see me in.

I think he'll be all sweaty because, let's face it most fat people get sweaty just from lifting the twinkie to their mouth, but tiny is just to fabulous to sweat.

His features are attractive, but what he does with them is not.

She must be in eighth grade--maybe seventh. She's old enough to wear make-up, but she hasn't figured out yet how to wear it well.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person who never gives to charity.

roger is bald and fat and his wife is probably bald and fat, too, and the last thing i want to hear about is them having bald and fast sex.

He looks like a lost puppy, but has the heart of a bitch.

He points to a hot guy in a skintight yellow tank top—or some such article of clothing. You know, the kind where the guy looks more naked than if he were actually naked?

If I had a type, I guess you could say I liked brunettes the best, and I kind of liked librarian types, you know, their outer appearance hiding smoldering heat inside….

Men's banter, when it does not center on sports or work, often revolves around the appearance and sexual availability of women in their social circles.

features of physical appearance, such as full lips, clear skin, smooth skin, clear eyes, lustrous hair, and good muscle tone, and features of behavior, such as a bouncy, youthful gait, an animated facial expression, and a high energy level. These physical cues to youth and health, and hence to reproductive capacity, constitute key elements of male standards of female beauty.

Because a woman's appearance provides such a bounty of cues to her fertility, men have evolved mate preferences that, perhaps unfortunately, give tremendous importance to a woman's physical appearance. In some ways, it is a psychological fact of life that women are sometimes treated as sex objects, just as men are sometimes treated as status objects.

To compound this problem, deception usually occurs in the domains that are most important—status, resources, and commitment for women, appearance and sexual fidelity for men, and personality qualities for both.