Quotes About Superficial

We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled-- we are indifferent. We might exist there; but should we really live there? We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-- I believe we are lost.

Falling in love, as Francesco Alberoni writes, "rearranges all our priorities, throws the superfluous overboard, projects a glaring light onto what is superficial and instantly discards it.

If you think you'll find intellectual stimulation, you're thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I've never been more bored by casual chat.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey?

Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

Politicians pose and grip and grin, and mouth blandishments, and, like the beloved Arab leaders, are careful to say nothing. The prime photo op directive, it seems, is to say absolutely nothing.

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

He's all hat and no cattle.

We've got girls like that in Boston, he said. Fake as her nails.

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

A lot was spoken but nothing was said.

The results are about as meaningful as a sixth toe - gives you something to look at, but doesn't do a damn thing.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

he smiles as thinly as packet soup

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.