#apparent

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#apparent #arising #been #co-operative #effort

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#any #apparent #camp #come #days

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#development #down #even #give #hotel

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#apparently #deeply #emotional #heterosexuals #homosexual

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#did #facial #get #had #i

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#after #any #apparent #consciousness #even

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end