Personal Appearance Quotes

• Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

  Christopher Lasch

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Attitude, Men, Expectations

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1949). “Childhood, Boyhood and Youth”

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• The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, House, Shining

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• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  Kate Cann

  Mental Illness, Obsession, Oblivion

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• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Character, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.241, UPNE

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• She was making great money at personal appearances.

  David Gest

  Making Money, Appearance, Great Money

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

  Enya

  Events, Red, Appearance

  "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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• I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

  David Selby

  Appearance, Contracts, Grooming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

  Les Dawson

  Wife, Ugly, Horror

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

  Joseph Barbera

  Thrill, Getting High, Levels

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

  George Catlin

  Hippie, Crow, Friendly

  George Catlin (2015). “The North American Indians Volume 1 of 2: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners and Conditions”, p.53, Digital Scanning Inc

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• I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Pride, Hair, People

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• I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

  Burt Ward

  Christmas, Country, Book

  "Stuph File" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Fashion, Morning, Clothes

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• I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

  Donna Douglas

  School, College, Church

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• I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Should Have, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Shy, Literature

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• I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

  Donna Douglas

  Real, Thinking, Doors

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• I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.

  Clayton Moore

  Giving Up, Believe, Fighting

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• I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!

  Betty Lynn

  Years, House, Alabama

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• We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

  Betty Lynn

  Years, Together, Passed Away

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• I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.

  Kola Boof

  Done, Republican, Appearance

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her.

  Chelsea Handler

  Appearance, Miles, Fees

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