Quotes About Appearances

What scum respectable people are!

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

I am concerned, I say, with facts which may belong to the order of pure observation, but which on each occasion present all the appearances of a signal, without our being able to say precisely which signal, and of what; facts which when I am alone permit me to enjoy unlikely complicities, which convince me of my error in occasionally presuming I stand at the helm alone.

There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

En un mundo dominado por las apariencias, en el que el valor está determinado por la presencia pública, el terrorismo puede ofrecer un espectacular atajo a la publicidad, y por eso los terroristas ajustan su violencia a los medios de información, particularmente a la televisión.

La seriedad es un continente misterioso del cuerpo que sirve para ocultar los defectos de la mente

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

El mundo sería infinitamente mejor si los líderes pudieran entender y aplicar las dinámicas que se esconden tras las apariencias que mueven y moldean el mundo.

To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.

To go about without a linen scarf on is nothing: what is praiseworthy is to be without money to buy one. It is disgraceful and absurd to boast of having neither napkin nor handkerchief and yet to carry a well-filled purse.

But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

In India, I tried never to show enthusiasm for the things I wanted most, but instead to focus it falsely on something showy, ask the price of that and then make a disappointed face when told.

During 'Will & Grace,' we had so many things we had to go to where you get all dolled up. It's like pulling teeth for me.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

I don't need to know her. I know her type. Rich girls spending their ugly husbands' money. They come to my shows. They want to be my friend. Gimme an honest hooker any day.

because, after all the struggles to reconstruct democracy in Chile and having endured so much suffering, people needed a new source of hope. It dawned on me that the resurrection stories of the appearances of Jesus might just hold the key to hope. The lectures were presented as examples of "master narratives" into which we can put our own stories.

Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.

The picture of a universe of infinitely many wholly unrelated substances is at least as hard to understand as the monism of Spinoza, and far less easy to reconcile with appearances.

and the moral of that is —"Be what you would seem to be"— or if you'd like it put more simply —"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something?

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.