164 Quotes About Appearances
- Author Gita V. Reddy
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Did anyone care for poor Cinderella until her fairy godmother took her in hand? Did anyone look beyond the ragged clothes and sooty face? Did anyone see the unshed tears and the poor, tired face?Obviously not. Appearances matter.
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- Author Jim Bouton
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The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.
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- Author Nick McDonnell
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He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.
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- Author Kenneth Eade
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But there is a dark side to humans that lurks in the background, and it’s only revealed if you know where to look. Like a shadow that is not always visible, the dark secrets of these men were just hiding beyond the cursory view of their politically correct appearances.
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- Author Douglas Coupland
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When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.
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- Author Garon Whited
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It’s one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.
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- Author Charlotte Stein
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If it's so easy -- if it only takes a day, a moment, a new dress, and some shoes and a hairstyle that didn't quite suit you -- to transform someone into something that fits into my world, why on earth would it matter to me at all?
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- Author John Green
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The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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- Author Robert Anton Wilson
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Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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