Appearance Quotes

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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… — Roland Barthes
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… — Sara Gruen
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
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… — Adolf Hitler
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
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… — D. H. Lawrence
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. — Mignon McLaughlin
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… — Charles Dickens
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. — John Green
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… — Hermann Hesse
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,… — Loren Eiseley
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. — Charles Dickens
You should take more pride in your appearance,â€ I tell him. â€œYou'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that. — Darren Shan
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… — Gregory Maguire
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,… — Mark Twain
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. — Warren Buffett
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,… — Gaston Leroux
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… — Dean Koontz
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen

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