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Quotes About Appearance

The secret of my success is my hairspray.
~ Richard Gere
Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.
~ Richard Hammond
Those who've marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren't forced to witness that marring. If they were, they'd become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.
~ Richard Matheson
Mother told her she looked just like the duchess of York, but younger. Lucille returned the compliment by remarking that Mother looked just like Queen Alexandra, but younger. And Dad wondered aloud what was wrong with good American people: "You look right miserable, Dad," I told him. "So do you, Alexander, but younger," he replied.
~ Richard Peck
The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide taffeta sash that was cutting me in half. Well, Blossom, just look at you! she said in her mother's own grown-up voice. I have always said a good dress will cover up any flaw. Then you had better get one like it, I replied.
~ Richard Peck
The store is a drag show of well-being and mirth.
~ Richard Powers
there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.
~ Richard Rohr
Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.
~ Richard Rohr
They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.
~ Richard Rohr
if making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.
~ Richard Russo
His carefully calculated sincerity is almost entirely indistinguishable from the real thing.
~ Richard Russo
He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.
~ Rick Riordan
We've all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I'm tragically funny and good-looking.
~ Rick Riordan
Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.
~ Rick Riordan
It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
~ Rick Riordan
He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).
~ Rick Riordan
He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.
~ Rick Riordan
While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach's enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. "What was that for?" the coach demanded.
~ Rick Riordan
It's hard to look in charge when you're hunched over like Quasimodo.
~ Rick Riordan
You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out. Y-yeah, Percy managed. You guys aren't photogenic.
~ Rick Riordan
He didn't want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.
~ Rick Riordan
I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The really disturbing thing was that they made shirts like that in my size.
~ Rick Riordan
Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.
~ Rick Riordan
Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy.
~ Rick Riordan