Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensAppearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
Dalai LamaNo one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
Dolly PartonI have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.
Jerry SeinfeldThe problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
Gordon RamsayI don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.
J. K. RowlingWe do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.
Robert GreeneHere’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin HartEven with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
Bill GatesJudgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne DyerBachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. MenckenWhy don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
Henny YoungmanI hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
Kanye WestI’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.
Margaret AtwoodIs the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David ThoreauMy concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. NixonFunny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Dolly PartonPolitical language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellYou know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.
Dolly PartonI have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam ChomskyThe myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Margaret AtwoodI read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.
Kevin HartBehind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim CarreyShe is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Oscar WildePeople always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The WeekndWe do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
J. K. RowlingI’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.
Angelina JolieI do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey NewtonHow well he’s read, to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareI recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.
Stephen KingI cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeI don’t read books much.
LeBron JamesThe biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonA man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert HubbardI don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
Vivienne WestwoodThe poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. RowlingI’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.
Conor McGregorNo one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry KissingerI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoMen don’t really like skinny, do they?
Angelina JolieYou’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
Dolly PartonThere is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
Gordon RamsayI like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.
Kurt CobainIt’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Billie EilishI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonWhy do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny YoungmanMost of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee WilliamsThe only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry PratchettI read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Amy WinehouseI think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.
Kevin HartPeople have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodIn the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Billie EilishI don’t generally read reviews.
Alice WalkerIf women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard ShawI read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.
Alice MunroAppearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai LamaO, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare