Quotes About Image

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

BECAUSE ROOSEVELT WAS9, in the image of Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, "polygonal," visitors saw only certain facets of his personality at any given time.

An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against some nearby boulders, with little tubs of mountain grass, discussing the battle?

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.

All vampires use self-hypnosis to avoid seeing themselves as they really are, but Histrionics are virtuosos of self-deception. Like stage magicians, they divert their own awareness away from the strings and wires that hold their personalities together. They simply do not see anything in themselves that they consider inappropriate or unlovable. Their image of themselves is like a series of attractive still photos, scenes from a movie with no overall plot to hold them together.

God acts by His works: in Heaven, by angels; on earth, by men. In the heaven of human conceptions, it is humanity that creates God; and men think that God has made them in His image, because they make Him in theirs.

En el momento en que Leonor invocaba la piedad del cielo para Martín, éste, como los antiguos caballeros, se lanzaba a lo más crudo de la pelea, llevando en su pecho la imagen y en sus labios el nombre de Leonor.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

L'apparence compte, pour la plupart des gens. Telle est la réalité du monde

In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on the one side his won image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat.

Of what use, then, is it to say that the "Sacred Heart" which Rome worships is called by the name of "Jesus," when not only is the devotion given to a material image borrowed from the worship of the Babylonian Antichrist, but when the attributes ascribed to that "Jesus" are not the attributes of the living and loving Saviour, but the genuine attributes of the ancient Moloch or Bel?

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Not given, not blessed by God, it was food whose eating was condemned to be communion with itself alone, and not with God. It is the image of the world loved for itself, and eating it is the image of life understood as an end in itself.

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.

?tiu despre Eminescu m?rturii directe care contrazic foarte multe imagini despre el. Venea elegant ?i purta foarte bine, cu dezinvoltur? ?i prestan??, fracul. Iat? o prim? negare a legendei conform c?reia era tot timpul neglijent ?i i se plimbau insecte pe guler. Pe urm?, dansa foarte bine vals ?i era pl?cut în conversa?ie.

The ping of the elevator door signaled their arrival at the bottom, just as an image flashed through his mind of Laurel huge with child--his child, their child. The very thought should scare him, but he found himself grinning. Trahern was staring at him as if he'd grown a second head. "I don't know where your mind is, Devlin, but it better be right here in this elevator with me.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

Watches are about status.

I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a perfect life, who has perfect hair, perfect clothes, and doesn't give you any of the kind of reality that you're used to.