Quotes About Appearances

I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I could manufacture excruciating embarrassment in the privacy of my bedroom, simply by reading what I'd written in the journal the day before. Its pages faithfully mirrored my fraudulence and pomposity and immaturity. Reading it made me desperate to change myself, to sound less idiotic.

I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.

On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or small, affords room for a certain number of inferences, beyond which we fall into absurdity.

In Buddhism, we aren't trying to look at the physical world by itself; instead, we're looking at the mind and its relationship to the appearances of the world. We observe the mind to see what the mind itself is and how it acts in relation to our internal and external experiences of everything—from thoughts and emotions to actual things.

Believe not when you hear that a rich person has done a charity.

Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests.

Black souls wear white shirts.

Exposing an illusion is not the same as revealing a truth

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

He has made a show of being a devoted family man but his life has been carefully arranged so that he spends as little time with his family as possible.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances," he said. "It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

And let me tell you something, mademoiselle – in the course of my experience I have known five cases of wives murdered by devoted husbands, and twenty-two of husbands murdered by devoted wives. Les femmes, they obviously keep up appearances better.

More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The