Appearing Quotes - Page 10

• The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Character, Reason, Wit

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• I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.

  Sally Miller Gearhart

  Hands, Identity, Able

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• irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

  John Updike

  Cake, Way, Irony

  John Updike (2012). “Always Looking: Essays on Art”, p.328, Knopf

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• He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

  Julian of Norwich

  Blessed, May, Gracious

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.

  Piers Morgan

  Sports, Children, Hate

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• Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.

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• Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

  Kelli Williams

  Real, Kids, People

  "Kelli Williams talks about starring in UP TV’s first scripted series (updated)". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. August 2015.

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• The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

  David Foster Wallace

  Giving, Arches, Lines

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc.

  George Harrison

  Everyday, Sake, Way

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Technology, Reality, Roots

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many
  suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Errors

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• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Real, Thinking, Light

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• What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

  Voltaire

  Rights, History, Should

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.148, Penguin

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• It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Broken, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.491

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Different, Tests

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

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• Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Emotional, Worry

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• Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.

  Skye Townsend

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Daggers

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

  Sophia Loren

  Children, School, Sky

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• Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Intelligent, Fool, Ifs

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.21, Booklassic

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• I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

  Andy Grove

  Mainstream, Desktop, Decades

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• I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

  Jared Harris

  People, Giving, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• The Void is both the source of nothingness and, at the very same time, the source of everythingness. In short, the void is the limitless context in which your entire world is both appearing and disappearing.

  Chuck Hillig

  World, Void, Limitless

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Looking for God: Seeing the Whole in One”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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