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Appearance Quotes


"I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off."


"I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder."


"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."


"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."


"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."


"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."


"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."


"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."


"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."


"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."


"Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker."


"On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement."


"The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance."


"A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly."


"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."


"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."


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


"She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue."


"Few places are more important for dressing appropriately than the workplace, where a professional appearance is crucial."


"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."


"The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off."


"Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them."


"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."


"One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him."


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


"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."


"Some women are good-looking - until they change their hairstyle."


"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self."


"Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter."


"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."


"Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month.Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek.Travis: You are a geek."


"A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm."


"Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign."


"Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. "It can purify.""It can also fuck you up, said Shadow."


"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."


"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."


"Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing."


"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."


"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."


"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head."


"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."


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


"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."


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


"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."


"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""


"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."


"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
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