Quotes About Image

To survive, you must look good or talk even better

She sat up straight, like someone had slipped a yardstick down the back of her bright red business suit.

All of us have an earthly father whose image we carry buried deep inside, an image that manifests itself in ways unrecognizable to us but nevertheless professes the touch of another human being.

called the Council of Hiereia to condemn image veneration. A few such images in churches seem to have been destroyed and replaced by crosses, which were for Constantine fully acceptable, because symbolic, objects of veneration. (Most holy portraits were not destroyed, however, as far as we can tell today.)

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

V is for vanity, every time I look at me I turn myself on, yeah

Like Janus, the press has presented two faces: one detrimental and one advantageous.

Sólo en la antigua tradición occidental y, sobre todo, en la cristiandad católica, el hombre se convierte en algo grande. Debe ser personalmente humilde; pero también debe recordar, y poner en práctica, el principio de que es un ser inmortal. hecho a imagen y semejanza de Dios y rescatado con el precio de la sangre de Dios, ciudadano de una ciudad eterna, con un destino de esplendor sin límites.

You see? This is what's wrong with the world. A young lady with bleached hair, an estuarine accent and unfeasible breasts can outsell a respected expert with decades of wisdom and experience." "She's human interest," replied May.. "You're not. People reading her story will feel that if she can make it without talent, maybe they can.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Before the war I often had the impression of being in the household of a busy architect and building tycoon rather than the Führer and Reich Chancellor.

If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.

I think of my chastened surprise when Mabel played with a paper telescope. She is real. She can resist the meanings humans give her. But the condor? The condor has no resistance to us at all. I stare at the attenuated, drifting image on the gallery screen. It is a shadow, a figure of loss and hope; it is hardly a bird at all.

There was . . . a mirror that crawled across the wall in a wooden frame. When I go into Miri's room all I can see, all I can think of is that enormous mirror, like a lake on the wall.

The wish to capture evanescent reflections, is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German Investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman in Paris to give to the world an invention of the Devil

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Je m'en faisais une belle image, moi, de la liberté. Un truc sacré, presque, un truc dont on fait des statues.

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.