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Quotes About Superficial

a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth
~ Jack Kerouac
Tinder - man, what's that all about? Tinder, where you're just, like, shopping for a human being. Reading the stats like 'Mortal Kombat.' You're like, 'Oh, he's got six arms, and he's only got the two, so I'll probably go with the six arms.' I don't want to do that with human beings.
~ Joe Gilgun
Modelling is very two-dimensional. You really don't have to bare anything.
~ Mia Goth
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
~ Redd Foxx
I think 'ex-model,' especially in the UK, smacks of being shallow and stupid and having no soul.
~ Pollyanna McIntosh
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
~ Pam Dawber
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
~ T. S. Eliot
There's less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
There's less here than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail.
~ Tana French
Cheap, people can be.
~ Tarkaoui Oussama
what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.
~ Ted Conover
Shallow men believe in luck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to us indeed that this block of marble brought from Genoa would have been exactly the same if it had been left there, because our senses make us judge only superficially, but at bottom because of the connection of things the whole universe with all of its parts would be entirely different, and would have been another from the beginning, if the least thing in it went otherwise than it does.
~ Neal Stephenson
Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
~ Barry Humphries
it's like a mini Bourbon Street with less culture and more disgusting hookers.
~ Tucker Max
You live on the surface, Lia told me years later. You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity would collapse if you try to stand it up.
~ Umberto Eco
It was one of those explanations that explained nothing but sounded impressive. Joseph
~ Val McDermid
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
~ Victor Hugo
Now, there's a young man who looks like a real pedant, for you!
~ Victor Hugo
This will be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~ Kristin Hannah
Smiling too brightly
~ Kristin Hannah
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
~ Lady Gaga