My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
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.
~By William Dampier ~
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
~By Ovid ~
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
~By Randy West ~
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.
~By Donna Douglas ~
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.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
~By Leland Stanford ~
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
~By Georg Brandes ~
Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
~By Fiona Apple ~
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
~By George Catlin ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
~By Frances Burney ~
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~By Perry Como ~
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
~By Saint Augustine ~
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
~By Edward Sapir ~
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
~By Usher Raymond ~
Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
~By Francis Parkman ~
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
~By Mary Wesley ~
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
~By David Selby ~
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.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~By George Orwell ~
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
~By Duane Michals ~
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
~By Martha Beck ~
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
~By David Low ~
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
~By John Berger ~
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
~By Charles Churchill ~
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
~By Fritz Todt ~
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
~By William Booth ~
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
~By Robert Klein ~
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
~By Katherine Harris ~
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
~By Boy George ~
One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
~By Tom Verlaine ~
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
~By Michael Korda ~
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.
~By Isaac Watts ~
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
~By Alec Guinness ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
~By Lara St. John ~
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
~By Aristotle ~
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
~By Douglas Bader ~
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
~By Randy West ~
First appearance deceives many.
~By Ovid ~
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
~By Bill Mumy ~
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
~By Frank Langella ~
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
~By Peter Benenson ~
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~By George Whitefield ~
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
~By King Hussein I ~
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
~By William John Wills ~
She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.
~By Fritz Weaver ~
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
~By Benny Hinn ~
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
~By Franz Marc ~
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
~By Martin Bashir ~
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
~By Phaedrus ~
I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.
~By Donna Douglas ~
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching "Ben Hur" at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
~By Jude Law ~
A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
~By Helen Reddy ~
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
~By Dusty Springfield ~
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
~By Stanley Milgram ~
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~By John Ruskin ~
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.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
~By Penelope Lively ~
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
~By Don Herold ~
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
~By Stephane Mallarme ~
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
~By Angela Carter ~
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
~By Clayton Moore ~
One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
~By Tonya Harding ~
But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.
~By Diane Kruger ~
I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
~By Paris Hilton ~
This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
~By Ryan White ~
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
~By Isaac Newton ~
But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.
~By Bo Jackson ~
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
~By Enya ~
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