Favorite Quotations ~  Image Stillness Speaks

"Yet even as the years grew lean, I became aware that my place in the game, the image people had of me, had taken on a kind of permanence." ~ Mickey Mantle

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People scream at me, "Hey, let's party." I give off an I'm-crazy-and-I-want-to-arty-and-wrestle-you vibe. ~ Jack Black

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing. ~ Rod Stewart

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am because the world could use a few good people like that. ~ Alan Alda

An image is one thing, a human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image. ~ Elvis Presley

As beautiful as the image may seem, running in a field of flowers can be complicated by bugs, burrs, unexpected pitfalls, allergies, and humidity. ~ Jane Mullikin

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself. ~ Blaise Pascal

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ~ Eric Hoffer

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror. ~ Harrison Ford

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It’s about 20 steps away. ~ Madonna

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person’s life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I’d just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world. ~ John Wayne