Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its… — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will… — Bae Yong-joon Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, so I strive for that. Basically, I… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The major was very interested in the mountains, and we in turn were very interested in the major, a spare spruce man… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk… — Pedro Winter Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
