Quotes About Image

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.

Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that 'only you seem to bring back Virginia's laughter - I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)

It was there that Death woke him every morning, holding the broken shard of a mirror close enough for him to see the fog of his breath clouding his image.

People see what you are before they hear what you are.

The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.

We all want to be great, but we don't want people to know we want to be great.

God has made human beings in his own image, they can indeed think about God, talk about God, and understand God.

Christ enlightens every man ever born by having created him with an intellectual and moral endowment…This knowledge is a part of the image of God in which God created Adam.

Man did not invent logic, but logic came from God, and we have some grasp of logic and perceive its necessity because God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic, and he has made us in his own image. God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic not because he is subservient to a set of rules that are higher than himself; rather, the principles of logic are descriptions of the way God thinks. They are descriptions of his rational nature.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, Shade more than man, more image than a shade; For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth May unwind the winding path; A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; ("Byzantium")

Fellow-wanderer, Could we but mix ourselves into a dream, Not in its image on the mirror!

But round your image there is no fog, and the Earth can still astonish.

Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But lead me at times beside the still waters; There when I crouch to drink let me catch a glimpse of your image Before it is obscured with my own…

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!