Quotes About Superficial

he truth is that writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial.

For all her talk of being or so progressive and free...all she really is is full of shit!

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.

But what that means, sadly is that he has no depth. He's never had to work for anything in his life.

All is gas and gaiters.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing

it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

He was a celebrity, in the tradition of Lord Byron and Beau Brummell, but more Brummell than Byron, more style than substance. "Evidently I am 'somebody,'" he noted at the time, "but what have I done? I've been 'noticed.' That is something, I suppose. And I have published one book of poems. That doesn't amount to much.

I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice

You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants," Segura said.

The world might look glossy and safe, but that's just paint, a shimmering clear coat.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

manufactured bonhomie

Beauty is only skin deep.

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

long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT

a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong,gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.