Quotes About Superficial

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

In truth, to go for a walk with one's eyes open is enough to demonstrate that humanity is divided into two classes of individuals whose clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and occupations are manifestly different. Perhaps these differences are superficial, perhaps they are destined to disappear. What is certain is that right now they do most obviously exist.

His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his supposed learning;

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

There are people you're glad to have them in your life, and there are people, well they're only there, nothing more nothing less.

A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.

everything thing in life goes really really very very deep and ally you have to show the world is, its just on the SURFACE

empty things for empty men.

Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

It is safe to say that the knowledge men can acquire of women, even as they have been and are—never mind what they could be—is wretchedly incomplete and superficial, and that it always will be so until women themselves have told all that they have to tell.

busying herself with inconsequential tasks.

Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.

when you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

There are those whose character is like a chestnut without a kernel.

Cohen was so shallow it was almost a talent.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions--these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

There are two words I hate and despise and don't want to hear: red carpet and iconic.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

There are no hidden depths to me.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.