Quotes About Image

She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility." Excerpt From: Catherine, Called Birdy.

But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive.

Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about

First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller. Images. I had seen that word before—at least six times before on my annual reading sojourn to the sheriff's office. The word was connected to a deed and the deed was connected to an act and that act had been committed by a man and that man, I now understood, was connected to you.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Fanning Court. God forbid. Teddy could no longer sit in the chair. He could no longer leave the bed, no longer do anything. He was approaching the end of his twilight, entering into the final darkness. Viola imagined the synapses in her father's brain flaring and dimming like the slow death of a star. Soon Teddy would burn out completely and implode and become a black hole. Viola was hazy on the subject of astrophysics, but she liked the image.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.