Quotes About Superficial

I'm a fake intellectual.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

on the outside, and all of

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking.

Hay dos clases de felicidad. Una nos llega cuando las circunstancias son placenteras y estamos relativamente libres de problemas. El inconveniente con esta clase de felicidad es que es fugaz y superficial.

Politics is a far more intellectual business than is often realized. You may think: Well, if it's simplicity that's required, you don't need a whole lot of detail. Wrong. The simplicity is not born of superficial analysis. It is simple precisely because it is the product of being worked through.

She has all the right equipment to look sexy, pretty even. She just overdoes everything-like she's a coloring-book women who got scribbled on by a toddler,

Sie begrüßte mich mit einem so hölzernen Lächeln, dass Draufklopfen Glück gebracht hätte.

People, Win knew, made snap judgments based on appearances. No great insight there. And yes, there were the obvious prejudices against African-Americans or Jews or what-have-you. But Win was more concerned with the more garden-variety prejudices. If, for example, you see an overweight woman eating a doughnut, you are repulsed. You make snap judgments—she is undisciplined, lazy, sloppy, probably stupid, definitely lacking in self-esteem. In

Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

The oven was a prop, strictly for show, like a politician's Bible. Something

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Era abbastanza bella, ma molto comune. Il tipo di ragazza che in un serial televisivo fa la parte dell'amica della protagonista, quella che va a bere qualcosa con lei al bar, e le chiede: «Cosa ti succede? Non mi sembri molto in forma di questi tempi.» Fa solo una breve apparizione e appena scompare dallo schermo nessuno si ricorda più che faccia avesse.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.

One really can't control or think about the reaction of the audience because you're so steeped in trying to get what you feel is right on film and to translate the page in the proper way. The rest is superficial stuff you can't change or adjust or deal with.

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.