Appearance Quotes

• I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Children
  • Emotion
  • Natural

• The strong appearance of design in nature allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Strong
  • Simple
  • Design

• Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Feelings
  • Appearance
  • Integrating

• Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Appearance
  • Speculation
  • Deceived

• It's not the outer appearance that matters, it's what's inside.

  

  Sendhil Ramamurthy
  • Appearance

• Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

  

  Justin Long
  • Worry
  • Appearance
  • Animation

• Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Commitment
  • Appearance
  • Contracts

• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Time
  • Circumstances
  • Profession

• When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Prosperity

• Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

  

  Keith Donohue
  • Mean
  • Laughter
  • Internals

• People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

  

  Steve Kroft
  • Clothes
  • Judgment
  • Appearance

• I try to change my physical appearance for every role.

  

  Robert Z'Dar
  • Appearance
  • Physical

• We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.

  

  Terry Gross
  • People
  • Book
  • Dad

• I strongly believe that appearance is important, as it's the first impression you get, but that is definitely not the deciding factor.

  

  Nora Fatehi
  • Impression
  • Appearance
  • Factor

• Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Reality
  • Criticism
  • Negative

• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Christ
  • Christianity
  • Protection

• They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Pictures
  • Minutes
  • Planes

• Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Moments
  • Appearance
  • Mortality

• Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Appearance
  • Presence
  • Prohibition

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