Quotes About Image

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

When you look better, you feel better. That keeps me motivated.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.

Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.

Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft.

He got in his car and rolled down the window. 'Make me out to be a good guy, okay? Brave and handsome, all that stuff. Best platoon leader ever.' He hesitated for a second. 'And do me a favor. Don't mention anything about -' 'No,' I said, 'I won't.

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque, had power over me.

In valuing the image over the word, we fall victim to the image's appearance of full revelation. Whereas the word prompts suspicion and questioning, the image produces belief and devotion. It is in this sense that Gilroy sees a latent fascism in the contemporary elevation of the image. The image today signifies the possibility of a completely successful process of manipulation.

Entrapped by the image, contemporary subjects come to inhabit a world without distance.

despite the green eyeshade and the garters on the sleeves.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way.

Roy Orbison had damaged his eyes and started wearing the dark glasses that became his trademark.

A kingdom marriage is defined as "a covenantal union between a man and a woman who commit themselves to function in unison under divine authority in order to replicate God's image and expand His rule in the world through both their individual and joint callings.

looked about as romantic and welcoming as a tar pit. I later learned that producers of the 1962 Marlon Brando film Mutiny on the Bounty had imported white sand from America so Matavai Bay would match the Hollywood image of a tropical island.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

Ty also seemed to believe his own publicity

A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the text has a purpose and that it's there to help me understand the idea. Unfortunately, writing code doesn't have the same romantic image aswriting poetry.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?