Appearance

Appearance may refer to:

  • Visual appearance, the way in which objects reflect and transmit light
  • Human physical appearance, what someone looks like
  • Appearances (film), a 1921 film directed by Donald Crisp
  • Appearances (1990 film), featuring Ernest Borgnine
  • Appearance, another term for the baseball statistic games pitched
  • Appearance (philosophy), or phenomenon
  • Appearance (law), the coming into court of either of the parties to a suit, and/or the formal act by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court.

Famous quotes containing the word appearance:

    “The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.”
    —Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

    “The whole appearance is a toy. For this,
    The dove in the belly builds his nest and coos,
    Selah, tempestuous bird. How is it that
    The rivers shine and hold their mirrors up,
    Like excellence collecting excellence?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)