Quotes About Superficial

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

Wow. Nice bike," I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

Every smile was just mechanics. Every laugh was manufactured. Every public sign of affection was just that: for the public.

Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

full of classes he has never taken, grades he never earned

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.

Only in a superficial sense can lies be said to exclude the truth; you will be aware that in many cases lies- the patient's lies to the psychoanalyst- are just as revealing as the truth, if not more so...

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

His skin was pocked and ruddy, his nose large and misshapen, red and veined as though he'd snorted, and retained, Burgundy. His teeth protruded, yellowed and confused, heading this way and that in his mouth. His eyes were small and slightly crossed. A lazy eye, thought Gamache. What used to be known as an evil eye, in darker times when men like this found themselves at best cast out of polite society and at worst tied to a stake.

No, I don't. I find them very superficial. Calculated. He's a good artist, but I think he could be a great one, if he could use more instinct and less technique. He's a very good draftsman.

I begin to hate you for your face and not just the things you do.

Some people are so fake they make barbie look real.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.