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Quotes About Superficial

They seem to be excited about something terribly unimportant
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
mostly cosmetic variations
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do I look feeble to you Actually, yes. Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.
~ Neal Shusterman
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
~ Charles Bukowski
But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.
~ Chelsea Handler
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
~ Dolly Parton
we don't ask what works, we simply gravitate to what sounds miraculous.
~ Tim Harford
Art is not mere entertainment or decoration, it has meaning, and we both want and need to fathom that meaning – not fear, dismiss, or construct superficial responses told to us by authorities.
~ Toni Morrison
A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.
~ Tony Evans
Indeed, for the denizens of Versailles, clothes and other seemingly superficial emblems remained concrete measures of their success . . . or failure. In this rarefied world, the surface was the substance. And the appearance of power, legible in everything from a slashed sleeve to a patent coat, was the real thing.
~ Caroline Weber
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
~ Carrie Fisher
We often assume that when the surface offers so little the depth must be unfathomable.
~ Carrie Fisher
Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.
~ Carter Heyward
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
~ George MacDonald
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
~ Kin Hubbard
There is less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
A dimple in the chin; a devil within.
~ Irish proverb
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
~ Marie de France
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
~ Franklin J. Dickman
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Deep down I'm really shallow.
~ Linda Merkin
He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.
~ Virgil
They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.
~ J.R. Ward