Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.
I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
It appears to me that one defeats God precisely by not trying to stand above God, but on the contrary by using God's own existence against God.
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.
Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.
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.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
