Appearance Quotes

"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
-Aristotle

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
-Aristotle

"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
-Confucius

"A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow."
-Menander Of Athens

"Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with."
-Roseanne Barr

"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
-Christie Brinkley

"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?"
-Dame Edith Sitwell

"I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man."
-Boy George

"My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time."
-Cindy Crawford

"I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles."
-Courteney Cox

"The appearance of right oft leads us wrong."
-Horace Mann

"There is fear at Sun that this will expose too much to Microsoft . It is an appearance issue."
-Jeffrey Kingston

"Just appearance doesn't change economy."
-Rich Williams

"Their appearance, their attitude, their personality."
-Tom Vaughn

"There's always been an appearance that we always have our hand out every time we come to one of these meetings."
-Danny Williams

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-Christopher Lasch

"Was there anything about his appearance or demeanor that evening that struck you as unusual?"
-Gerald Schwartzbach

"I don't anticipate any changes in the appearance of the river."
-Tom Norton

"It's changed the appearance of the park quite a bit."
-Tony Wolfe

"This is a violent death in appearance."
-Joe Scott

"He shouldn't be testifying, ... He's got the appearance of being somebody who was there on the scene. He wasn't there."
-Christopher Seeger

"Hopefully this will stimulate the appearance of new talents in Brazil."
-Julius Erving

"They are paying for her appearance and we're the apparatus. They're good for us and vice versa."
-Al Nigrin

"They have indicated that they are not finished with her testimony yet, and we will have at least one more appearance."
-Lawrence Wechsler

"I didn't know (about her TV appearance) until after it happened."
-John Burris