Quotes About Image

There is beauty in an image that highlights a connection to oneself, rather than a distance from one's partner.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.

She was a hostage to fortune, held captive by her public image, bound by the constitutional circumstance of her unique position as the Princess of Wales and a prisoner of her day-to-day life.

We (the royal family) are not supposed to be human.

Placing oneself in the limelight while seeming modestly to edge away from it is one of the most skilful of all political moves, and Napoleon had mastered it perfectly.

Nunca se tiene una segunda oportunidad de causar una primera impresión.

what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

The waxen fingers of the Countess, fingers of a holy image, turn up the card called L'Amoureux. Never, never before… never before has the Countess cast herself a fate involving L'Amoureux. She shakes, she trembles, her great eyes close beneath her finely veined, nervously throbbing eyelids; the lovely cartomancer has, this time, the first time, dealt herself a hand of love and death.

Marcia listened to the comments and wondered why people thought that wearing ExtraOrdinary Wizard robes made her deaf.

He expected a blast of Vera's famous sarcasm, but none came. Instead she stopped moving and leaned against a desk. He had a sudden image of an enormous sea-lion stranded on a rock.

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

So what if I am an actor? MGR, Jayalalithaa, Raj Babbar, Sunil Dutt - all made successful politicians.

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.