77 quotes found
“Its one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.”
“What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!”
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
“But to appear happy when I am so miserable Oh! who can require it?”
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
“A wash of relief poured through her, along with a kindling of hope. Her bridegroom wasn't Gauri; he wasn't even human. He was, however, congenial and gracious. She had proclaimed his appearance gha...”
“The Creator has I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature...”
“When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other w...”
“Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, thatreason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.”
“Clinging to ones outward appearance interferes with living.”
“What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”
“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. (Un...”
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila's Front Porch, Tawny's High Five Ranch and Miss ...”
“We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.”
“There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.”
“So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? ...”
“Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make suc...”
“I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.”
