Appearance Quotes - Page 22

• If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Evil, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

  Maureen Johnson

  Home, People, News

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.156, Penguin

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• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

  Trudi Canavan

  People, Mind, No Respect

  Trudi Canavan (2010). “The Magician's Apprentice”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

  Matthew Quick

  Pounds, Overweight, Seventies

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Drama, Reality, Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Growth, Wizards, Down And

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Matter, Deals

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• But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

  Claire Messud

  World, Lost

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.9, Vintage

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• As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

  Marisha Pessl

  Believe, Simple, Evil

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• Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

  Mitch Albom

  Sea, Miracle, Rooms

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Mother, Hair

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• So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Past, Color

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.88

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• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Change, Bulldogs, Angry

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• The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Gymnastics, Hands

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Happiness, Cousin, Clue

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

  Lucy Hale

  Girl, Worry, Grows

  "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, 4th Of July, Promise

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

  Brian Herbert

  Mean, Science, Reality

  "Dune: House Harkonnen". Book by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, 2000.

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• What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mother, Spiritual, Self

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• Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Flower, Autumn

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unity, Enlightenment, Fields

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.42, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

  Mark Twain

  Age, May, Firsts

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• Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

  Billy Joel

  Girlfriend, Fall, Love You

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