Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

For a couple of years, being professional, I kind of questioned myself. Should I wear my false lashes or take the time I want to take so I can feel good when I go out on the field? Because nobody else was really doing that. And I thought, No: I'm not going to change what I believe I should look like to fit anybody else's standards.

A way a woman walks and talks and moves and behaves is completely connected to how she looks.

I don't always look so beautiful.

I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

I came out of the womb wearing make-up!

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.' It takes away the natural beauty of a person. I think Gisele [Bundchen] had just said something like there's no more rawness, like the little quirks. You know, I have a gap in my teeth and sometimes people take it away. But I'm like, 'I love my teeth.' You know, that's me.

I always feel better and more beautiful in things that I'm comfortable in so I was fine with putting a little makeup on and keeping my leggings on and going to a party.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.