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Quotes About Superficial

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
~ Bradley Whitford
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
~ Elizabeth I
People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
~ Tab Hunter
Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.
~ Bill Beham
Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.
~ Steve Tisch
I no em vull referir a aquesta intel·ligència superficial, ornament balder dels esperits ociosos, ans a aquesta intel·ligència profunda i modera que s'aplica, per damunt de tot, a la consecució de coses útils.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Il avait sa casquette enfoncée sur ses sourcils, et ses deux grosses lèvres tremblotaient, ce qui ajoutait à son visage quelque chose de stupide ; son dos même, son dos tranquille était irritant à voir, et elle y trouvait étalée sur la redingote toute la platitude du personnage.
~ Gustave Flaubert
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
~ H. L. Mencken
Too often, show muscles meant useless muscles.
~ Harlan Coben
She hit me with a smile so wooden I could have knocked on it for luck.
~ Harlan Coben
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
~ Layne Staley
I find Hollywood really toxic.
~ Rachel Weisz
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
as they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle.
~ Max Boot
What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things?
~ Maxine Kumin
Looks can be deceiving.
~ Meg Cabot
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.
~ bell hooks
our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.
~ Beryl Markham
Modelling is a silly, crazy business.
~ Helena Christensen
Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don't last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it's hard to have a relationship with someone like that.
~ Julia Stiles
I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.
~ Rita Rudner
Ah, these English. So refined and so coarse. If they did not exist, nobody would ever have invented them. So eccentric, so superficial, so reserved. But how they enjoy themselves.
~ Susan Sontag
Los cambios son meramente cosméticos para que opere el principio lampedusiano: 'cambiarlo todo para que nada cambie.
~ Juan Eslava Galán
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
~ Jude Morgan