Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers then society would appear very different from what it is.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

Having soon discovered to be great I must appear so and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society and wrapped myself in mystery devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

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.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Science almost from its beginnings has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Fashion is the science of appearances and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms molecules cells tissues and organs.

Fashion is the science of appearance and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.