Quotes About Image

I don't think I've ever seen you without braids. I thought your hair just grew that way.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

In class, we were discussing the concept of the villain in the novel. I had mentioned that Humbert was a villain because he lacked curiosity about other people and their lives, even about the person he loved most, Lolita. Humbert, like most dictators, was interested only in his own vision of other people. He had created the Lolita he desired, and would not budge from that image.

I knew a time would come when I would disappoint them, falling short of the image that my campaign and I had helped to construct.

Once you became president, people's perceptions of you—even the perceptions of those who knew you best—were inevitably shaped by the media.

one of my main goals as First Lady is to never be photographed in a bathing suit.

At some basic level people were no longer seeing me, I realized, with all my quirks and shortcomings. Instead, they had taken possession of my likeness and made it a vessel for a million different dreams. I knew a time would come when I would disappoint them, falling short of the image that my campaign and I had helped to construct.

Il n'y a aucune raison que la politique soit nécessairement conforme à l'image que s'en font les gens. Ca peut être autre chose.

Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front

God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted—was able—only to unshape.

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

This Asiatic pose was a side of Stalin almost no one saw.

other half of which had the image of the old woman on page 53. He passed

I began to feel more and more that much of the success literature of the past 50 years was superficial. It was filled with social image consciousness, techniques and quick fixes—with social Band-Aids and aspirin that addressed acute problems and sometimes even appeared to solve them temporarily, but left the underlying chronic problems untouched to fester and resurface time and again.

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.

Appearances matter

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

Susan Hawley, I suspect, is a woman much in demand in the rarefied zone of political nightlife in this city. She is the ultimate ornament to be hung from the arm of important political figures or captains of industry during quiet dinner meetings. In her commercial dealings, hundred-dollar bills appear in considerable quantity in her purse the morning after, like fishes and loaves in the basket after the Sermon on the Mount.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

This is not mere sentimentality. The triumph of twentieth-century metropolitan life is, in a real sense, the triumph of one image over the other: the dark ritual of deadly epidemics replaced by the convivial exchanges of strangers from different backgrounds sharing ideas on the sidewalk.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.