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Quotes About Facade

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
~ Arthur Herzog
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
~ William Shakespeare
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
~ Antonio Porchia
He was watching me scientifically; there was no emotion in him at all. There was an assessing gleam in the hooded black eyes, a satiric set to his mouth, and I knew with fatal clarity that I had been duped. The rapturous tenderness was only a ploy to win my response
~ Teresa Denys
Val de Grâce is a large late Renaissance church that is unusual for Paris; its exuberant carvings and animated façade are more typical of Rome, and the most beautiful dome in the city graces its undulating mass of light yellow stone.
~ Thad Carhart
I think there is something about the Internet which gives people almost an opportunity to role play and to create a facade, an image. I see that as quite a dangerous development because I think what we call social networking, Twitter, Facebook, etc., is actually quite antisocial.
~ Steven Wilson
I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
~ Gary Lineker
People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.
~ Remy Ma
At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.
~ Nicole Blackman
she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.
~ Nicole Krauss
You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.
~ Nicole Krauss
I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
~ Chuck Klosterman
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's so ob­vi­ous he's try­ing to pass as a nor­mal hap­py per­son.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Bana ÅŸu boktan dünyada aynen göründüÄŸü gibi olan tek bir ÅŸey ver. FlaÅŸ!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It wouldn't have surprised me to learn that nobody we knew had ever really seen the building: it was the sort of thing you wished you'd done, without actually wishing to do it.
~ Claire Messud
It wouldn't have surprised me to learn that nobody we knew had ever really seen the building: it was the sort of thing you wished you'd done, without actually wishing to do it.
~ Claire Messud
He offered her a grin designed for better teeth.
~ Clive Barker