Quotes About Image

Conclusions that echo an image or idea from the lead are powerful.

If God goes in search of man, created in His own image and likeness, He does so because He loves him eternally in the Word, and wishes to raise him in Christ to the dignity of an adoptive son. God therefore goes in search of man who is His special possession in a way unlike any other creature. Man is God's possession by virtue of a choice made in love: God seeks man out, moved by His fatherly heart. – Blessed John Paul II

Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?

His level of sophistication didn't jive with Slam," said Tony Gervino, the magazine's editor. "He wasn't particularly cool; he was very polished. Slam was never polished. We were the opposite of polished.

A considerable amount of American consumption spending is not for the enjoyment of consumption per se, but to show off wealth, status, or sexual allure. In the famous phrase of the economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen, this is "conspicuous consumption," that is, consumption whose main purpose is to impress others rather than to be enjoyed by oneself.2

worry that younger women are striving so hard to present a compelling story via images that they're ignoring the substance that makes the story true. Ultimately, they're going to end up really bitter later in life (and not the good kind of bitter that sells books). My message to these women is this—if you want to avoid regrets later, give yourselves a break now and just be real. Enjoy the mess. Revel in the imperfection.

And here's the good news: even if things don't get better, you can always make them look good on the internet.

These days, designers who'd rather die than gain ten pounds, designers who'd rather make clothes for purse dogs than fat people, could mouth the right platitudes and make the right gestures.

Even if things don't get better, you can always make them look good on the Internet.

Ein Bild, das bleibt immer so, wie es ist und nur soweit das Bild reicht, bliebt alles so, wie es ist.

one that lingers long upon the retina of memory.

Facing the cameras with their unsensing triple lenses pointed at him like snouts, Chance became only an image for millions of real people. They would never know how real he was, since his thinking could not be televised. And to him, the viewers existed only as projections of his own thought, as images. He would never know how real they were, since he had never met them and did not know what they thought.

Chance became only an image for millions of real people. They would never know how real he was, since his thinking could not be televised. And to him, the viewers existed only as projections of his own thought, as images. He would never know how real they were, since he had never met them and did not know what they thought.

Even a novel drawn from reality, faithful to it, is not the truth, just as the image in the mirror is not a person in flesh and blood. It remains, that is, an abstraction, no matter how realistic, how close to the facts.

Moushumi smiles as she always smiles for a camera, her mouth closed, her head tilted slightly downward and to the left.

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.