Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. — Aesop
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. — Barbara Tuchman
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. — Socrates
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. — Anaxagoras
Customers will occasionally buy products not because they want them but because of how they are presented to them. — James Clear
It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing. — Alexander McQueen
The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink. — Pierre Balmain
Packaging can be theater, it can create a story — Steve Jobs
The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken. — Boss Tweed
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick
Windowpane Quotes
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane. — Vladimir Nabokov
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane. — Kevin Barry
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. — Rene Char
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended. — Rene Char
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us. — Fulton J. Sheen
Window Shopping Quotes
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual. — Prince Philip
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. — Tommy Cooper
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off. — Leonard Ravenhill
Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. — Thomas Carlyle
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. — Jean Kerr
The eyes are the windows to the soul — Hilary Duff
Get up , dress up, show up and never give up
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. — Brian Molko
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'. — Jeffrey Bernard
A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window." — Frank Carson
When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows. — Tristan Bernard
Rear Window Quotes
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy? — Thelma Ritter
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. — Paul Fussell
Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. — John Michael Hayes
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. — Mose Allison
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. — John Michael Hayes
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics. — John Michael Hayes
You're never fully dressed without a smile.
... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. — Karen Tayleur
Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo. — J. K. Rowling
Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window! — Jeff Foxworthy
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view. — The Undertaker
You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.
Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap. — Jhene Aiko
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. — Whitney M. Young
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. — Denis Waitley
Open Window Quotes
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. — Max Lucado
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more — Bob Dylan
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. — Marcus Aurelius
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. — Billy Collins
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. — Zooey Deschanel
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. — Lydia Maria Child
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass. — Mike Tyson
The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that. — John Boyne
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known. — Dame Ethel Smyth
I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now. — Patti Smith
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing. — Malcolm X
My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart. — Angie Harmon
Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm. — Dean Spade
People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing — Oprah Winfrey
Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you. — Eddie Mair
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.' — Patricia Reilly Giff
I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am. — Katie Melua
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. — Lydia M. Child
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing. — Virgil Goode
I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade. — Joan Rivers
We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest. — Lauren Graham
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