Appearance Quotes - Page 18

• Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Social Values, Age

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  Sara Gruen

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Space, Labyrinth

  Marcel Duchamp (1994). “Duchamp: Passim : a Marcel Duchamp Anthology”, Craftsman House

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• Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Expression, Creative

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• She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

  Truman Capote

  Queens, Wonderland, Flamingos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Emotional, Thinking, Soul

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Optimistic

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

  John Green

  Real, Way, Life Is

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.141, Penguin

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• Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Night, Men, Light

  "Gertrud". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1910.

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• We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

  Loren Eiseley

  Perfect, Life Is, Streams

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.59, Vintage

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• Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  People, Soul, Violence

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.456, BoD - Books on Demand

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• The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

  Charles Dickens

  Attendance, Leprosy, Unreality

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

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• You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

  Darren Shan

  Girl, Pride, Ugly

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• You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

  Gregory Maguire

  Fun, People, Giving

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Giving, Sticks

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3980, Delphi Classics

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• The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

  Gaston Leroux

  Mother, Real, Artist

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.4, e-artnow

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• Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Often Can, Cheerful

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.103, Bantam

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• Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crush, Self, Circles

  "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

  Mary E. Pearson

  Simple, Thinking, Voice

  Mary E. Pearson (2008). “A Room on Lorelei Street”, p.142, Macmillan

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• No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.

  Martin Buber

  Dream, Mean, Greed

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

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• I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

  Muriel Barbery

  Names, Mind, May

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• She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Men, Order

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• I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Horse, Elephants, Greek

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• Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

  Megan McCafferty

  Yesterday, Way, Tomorrow

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.254, Broadway Books

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