Quotes About Superficial

Those with a fixed mindset tend to learn things in a superficial way, just enough to prove they can do it. That's bad enough, but it gets worse. When people

Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins." I blinked. "What? Why? What's George got to do with anything?" "What a person looks like doesn't bother him much, or hadn't you noticed?

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.

If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?" asked Nightingale. "There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defence." "Maybe not," I said. "But that just makes me shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.

Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

I sometimes think people hire me only for my eyes. If they could, they'd probably say, please leave your eyes on the set, we don't need the rest of you.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

in these shitty plastic days ...

He's as smooth and shallow as glass.

and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness.

The Midwest is full of these types of people: the nice-enoughs. Nice enough but with a soul made of plastic—easy to mold, easy to wipe down.

I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

Courtney wants to make the statement that superficial beauty is manufactured and that any woman, or in this case, any man can be beautiful with the right tools.