Image Quotes

“Things Are Different:
You never know the story
By the cover of the book.
You can’t tell what a dinner’s like
By simply looking at the cook.
It’s something everybody needs to know
Way down deep inside
That things are often different
Than the way they look.
When I put on a costume
To play a fancy part
That costume changes just my looks.
It doesn’t change my heart.
You cannot know what someone’s thinking
By the picture you just took
‘Cause things are often different
From the way they look.”
― Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers

“A joke I used to repeat in those days was: Why be happy when you can be interesting? I knew how to be interesting. There was power in being a spectacle, even a miserable spectacle. The punch and the line. Interesting: sentences like serrated blades, laughter like machine-gun rounds, a drink in one hand, a borrowed cigarette in the other. If you could draw enough glances, any room could orbit around you.”
― Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives

“There was a basic logical paradox that I called the 'fraudulence paradox' that I had discovered more or less on my own while taking a mathematical logic course in school...The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside - you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.”
― David Foster Wallace, Oblivion

“And because you have not yet developed feelings toward yourself (other than negative feelings about your body), you see yourself only as a reflection of what other people think of you”
― Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Sounds Like Titanic

“Give yourself the clear advantage of a positive perspective with styles that compliment your best features and colors all in perfect proportion to your body.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Auntabelle laughed. “My looks have nothing to do with my brains, but I will accept your dumbfounded expression as a compliment. Usually when men find that I have a brain, they just walk off. At least you’re standing but with your mouth dropped open.” - Amazon Lee Adventure in China.”
― Kailin Gow, Kira G.

“We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a straddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door.”
― William Faulkner , A Rose for Emily

“The keys to dressing is understanding your personal colors, body shape and proportions.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“It is funny how different mirrors reveal different aspects, it must be like people you meet, you get to prefer the ones who show an image of you that you like.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

“As the Minotaur walks to his car Buddy charges the fence, snorting, slobbering and barking maniacally. The Minotaur is no longer afraid of Buddy, and he knows the dog means no real harm. But they have an unspoken understanding. Each of them has a history; each clings to an image, however diminished, of himself and his place in the world.”
― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

“Never neglect the way you arrange things visually. Factors like color, for example, have enormous symbolic resonance.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Image is the root of imagination.”
― Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words

“No one is more conscious of your physical appearance than you are.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“I feel a real responsibility to the images I get attached to.”
― Patti Smith

“Image is a projection of how a company would like to be understood by customers; identity is the reality of what a company delivers as experienced by customers”
― John Heskett, Design: A Very Short Introduction

“We look like GOD, Right?
"Own Image"… Does it mean that we are different versions of this person?”
― Deyth Banger

“You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Revelation

“I clung to the image of my brothers and their friends for safety as I now felt uncomfortable with Mr. Viliamu.”
― Sia Figiel, FREELOVE

“This may be the real reason many of us fear silence in church—because anyone sitting near us may hear the hissing, rumbling, wheezing sounds of a living human being, which do not match up with the attractive countenances that we work so hard to present to one another.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“As enjoyable as it could be to spend a couple of hours on Sunday morning with people who were at their best, it was also possible to see the strain in some of the smiles, the effort it took to present the most positive, most faithful version of the self.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“Wear whatever mask you must wear to deal with a situation, but beware that when the masks come off you may not recognize the real you underneath.”
― Toni Sorenson

“On veut toujours que l'imagination soit la faculté de former des images. Or elle est plutôt la faculté de déformer les images fournies par la perception, elle est surtout la faculté de nous libérer des images premières, de changer les images. S'il n'y a pas changement d'images, unions inattendues d'images, il n'y a pas imagination, il n'y a pas d'action imaginante. Si une image présente ne fait pas penser à une image absente, si une image occasionnelle ne détermine pas une prodigalité d'images aberrantes, une explosion d'images, il n'y a pas imagination. Il y a perception, souvenir d'une perception, mémoire familière, habitude des couleurs et des formes. Le vocable fondamental qui correspond à l'imagination, ce n'est pas image, c'est imaginaire. La valeur d'une image se mesure à l'étendue de son auréole imaginaire. Grâce à l'imaginaire, l'imagination est essentiellement ouverte, évasive. Elle est dans le psychisme humain l'expérience même de l'ouverture, l'expérience même de la nouveauté. [...] Le poème est essentiellement une aspiration à des images nouvelles.”
― Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly describe him, no ideal can represent reality as it is.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea has been an absolute disaster to the public image of astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“In our ever-expanding world of style and image experts, one problem that often arises is the question of what differentiates one image consultant from another.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

“Its only your attitude which decides about your respect and image.”
― Raj Kumar Koochitani

“Be limited to your decisions and statements because people always pretend for what they want.”
― Raj Kumar Koochitani

“Did you know that you could gain the upper hand and command respect in every situation with self-confidence, balance, dignity, subtle charm and grace? All the whilst remaining true to yourself and not a slave to fashion, but someone that sizzles with sensational style. Yes, indeed you can since you alone are in control of your style and image.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“One cannot hold its image of pride, and love together, at a time. To be a lover or proud person that lies in one's hands.”
― Ehsan Sehgal