Quotes About Superficial

Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.

Yliopistoihminen: liukas ja pinnallinen, saisi paikan talvisena jalkakäytävänä.

La politique qui entre à l'université est celle qui sort de l'histoire, c'est une politique rétro, vidée de sa substance et légalisée dans son exercice superficiel, aire de jeu et terrain d'aventure (…)

Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

matter of form, rather than substance.

Never judge a book by it's cover . . . judge it by it's price.

Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. Why hadn't I noticed this in him? Why did I see only the superficial way he talked about politics or the pedantic way he tasted the wine?

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Most art is just surface noise.

Too much information about nothing.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?