Quotes About Superficial

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

The surface is all you get of me.

Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.

Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.

'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Fame is a Bleet, man.

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

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.