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Letter "A" » Appearance
«The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Appearance,
Reality,
World
| Keywords:
appearance, governed, realities, to seem
«The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.»
Author: Penelope Cruz
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Appearance,
Careers,
Cinema,
Difficulty,
Movies
| Keywords:
actress, known as, Pretty Woman
«When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance»
Author: Victor Borge
(Comedian, Pianist)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
head off, improves, opera, opera star, sings
«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.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Ambition,
Appearance
| Keywords:
cover, enterprises, incurable, incurables, inflexible
«Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance»
Author: Bible
| About:
Appearance,
Men,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
brightened, brightening, brightens, explanation
«The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| About:
Appearance,
Happiness,
Nature,
Suffering
| Keywords:
in due course, in due season, Summer and
«The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Appearance,
Art
| Keywords:
appearances, loftier
«The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Appearance,
World
| Keywords:
inspection, look into, mirror image, uglier
«What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
colors, prose, recited, recites, reciting, stripped, tales
«The cowl does not make the monk»
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