An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
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.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
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.
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
