Appearance Quotes - Page 7

• Do not judge from mere appearances.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Judging, Jewelry, Blithe

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.

  Andrea Palladio

  Beauty, Respect, Body

  "The Four Books of Architecture".

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• The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Real, Smart, Party

  "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.

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• You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?

  Mia Michaels

  Inspirational, Dance, Being Yourself

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• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  Usher

  Girlfriend, Dating, Nails

  "A Feminist Takedown of Usher’s ‘I Don’t Mind’" by Katie Chodosh, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.

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• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  Richard Cushing

  Nature, Ducks, Bird

  "Quotation Finder". Book by Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, p. 55, 1971.

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• To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Persons

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• But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

  Diane Kruger

  Mean, Makeup, Hair

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

  Andre Weil

  Mean, Intuition, Connections

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• I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

  Tom Verlaine

  Kissing, Media, Band

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• But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, People, New Day

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• I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Different, Glances

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

  Boy George

  Drama, Looks

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• In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Evil, Sometimes, Innocent

  "Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America". Book by Harry Barnard, p. 481, 1954.

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• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

  Andrew Vachss

  Balls, Lace, Bowling

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• They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

  Minnie Pearl

  Doors, Taking Pictures, Made

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• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

  Fritz Todt

  Construction Projects, Socialist, Our Time

  "Deutsche Technik", May 1938.

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• I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Attitude, Speech, Medal

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• Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

  David Low

  Two, Cartoon, Three

  David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph

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• The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

  Cesare Lombroso

  Genius, Mediocrity, Birth

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres

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• Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

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• You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

  Diane Arbus

  Reality, Flaws, Streets

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

  Pope Paul VI

  Devil, Dimples, Chins

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• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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