Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have never been wholly comfortable in social settings, so I never say much. Yet, very good with people is how I have often been described. Appearance and courteous gesture is remembered far longer than words.

Ashlee Simpson

I felt like the character really didn't care about her appearance and how she looked and whatnot and I really wanted to feel that way,

Charles Darwin

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

He really wants to make this event his first public appearance in Maine. We just love him here and he will get a real hero's welcome.

Michael Graves

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Ben Crenshaw

he said. ''It's best when done on flatter surfaces, or when you have the appearance of a flat surface.

He shouldn't be testifying, ... He's got the appearance of being somebody who was there on the scene. He wasn't there.

He should be making an appearance before too long to talk to everybody.

His only objective in selling the stock was to eliminate the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Chris Witty

I enjoy everything about life right now -- everything. I'm just really happy. I'm able to enjoy everything. I'm not depressed all the time and I'm not worried about anything, about myself or my appearance or things like that. Now I just feel so much more comfortable in my skin because I feel like I'm able to really tell everybody who I am and where I'm coming from and why I am the way I am. I'm just a different person today than I was even four years ago.

Julius Erving

Hopefully this will stimulate the appearance of new talents in Brazil.

There is a new climate in Washington. Even the appearance of impropriety can do in a career.

We look forward to Mr. Hendrix's appearance before the board of canvassers on Thursday.

Blaise Pascal

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Alain de Botton

We should not be frightened by appearances.

One positive is that S&P earnings so far have looked better than the year-earlier period. Granted, comparisons are a lot easier as companies take less write-offs, but it's still something that's encouraging. I don't think we're going to have a big profit recovery, but we'll have the appearance of improvement.

James Lovegrove

My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

Franz Marc

Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing sensible to say to them. Haven't we learned in the last thousand years that the more we confront objects with the reflection of their appearance, the more silent they become?

Since employees start over at step one when they are promoted, going from firefighter to lieutenant results in a loss of about $1.50 per hour, and lieutenant to captain results in a loss of about 50 cents per hour. But other departments have the same problem, specifically in the Police Department and the Water and the Community Appearance departments. In the Water and Sewer Board, you have many different levels of work, which makes it more likely that you will have promotion problems. That?s why it gets very expensive to fix all of the departments of the city at the same time. The cost depends on the size of the department.

Since your last appearance before the grand jury in September 1996 we have been able to obtain a copy of this check and confirm it's your handwriting on the check. You signed this check, correct?

Maya Angelou

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise

There are two re-entries fooling users this month. The Elf Bowling hoax, which has made a festive re-appearance, warns users that the game is infected with a virus and should be deleted immediately upon receipt. This hoax is essentially harmless, but serves as a reminder to companies that they should explain to employees the danger of distributing executable files. The game, while not a malicious threat, can divert employees from doing real work.

Oprah Winfrey

Let's face it, ... there was nobody that looked like me.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

Several games use a cell phone in the interface. Mobile companies change their appearance every few months, so why shouldn't they be able to change their creative? Our competitor mainly focuses on things like in-game billboards.

So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Man is but the Image of God. Even Nature is but an appearance of God; the reality is He alone.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

William John Wills

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.

Victoria Hanley

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Mary McCarthy

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.