172 quotes found
“Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.”
“A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.”
“To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.”
“Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.”
“We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.”
“Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.”
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. T...”
“Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a ...”
“Im not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.”
“I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I dont need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I dont need to starve mysel...”
“The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt ...”
“Ive been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. Ive used the number on my scale to tell me if Im valuable or not. Ive let the number on my scale destroy many beautiful opportunities in m...”
“I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my moms homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that cant lie in dance class, and I also enjoy orderi...”
“I do not know which of us has written this page.”
“It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.”
“What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would it be like to live as a spider, having people shriek and jump and throw a sh...”
“Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul?”
“Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blo...”
“Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.”
“Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not t...”
