Quotes About Superficial

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

Gold,silver,gems, fine raiment , a marble palace, well-cultivated fields, paintings, a splendidly caparisoned horse such things as these give one nothing more than a mute and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they converse with us, they give us good advice; they become living and lively companions to us .

Special counsel Theodore Sorensen and the president's brother Bobby were designated "intellectual watchdogs," whose job was to "pursue relentlessly every bone of contention in order to prevent errors arising from too superficial an analysis of the issues," Janis noted.

While 76 per cent of Americans said they watched, read or heard the news on a daily basis, only 41 per cent said they went beyond the headlines.4 So there's this potential illusion of knowing. It is the danger of having a superficial level of knowledge about anything, but believing you know everything.

The Communists offer them another kind of revolution, glittering and seductive in its superficial appeal.

The changing conditions of history touch only the surface of the show.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

Never mind what's going on underneath. As long as we're all 'civil.

You can't be deep without a surface.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

What we can also say with an arsenal of scientific ammunition is that though skin color is the first and most obvious way we see humans, it's a superficial route to an understanding of human variation, and a very bad way to classify people.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

Barba non facit philosophum

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.