Quotes with appearance

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  • Andrew Vachss Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Michel Foucault Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Bridget Riley For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
    Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 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.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Anne Tyler I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm going to make an appearance in professional wrestling, but it won't be for the WWE. If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Andre Weil Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aristotle It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Ovid Neglect of appearance becomes men.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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