Quotes About Superficiality

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

Looking at Donna Jordan, 'top model' was not the first thing that popped into your mind.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily, it goes without saying. Not every idiocy contains a philosophical pearl. But there exist ordinary situations, everyday gestures, actions we carry out continuously, which can become the starting point for that astonishment that gives rise to philosophy.

Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a good front, and keeping it up at all costs. Yes, and you make a bundle of those wrapping papers of yours! And now you yourself are nothing but wrapping paper. With nothing inside.

Curates are such triflers.

N'importe quoi dans la vanité c'est mieux que rien

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Personally, I felt no urge to hook up with James. He was handsome enough, or whatever, but he reminded me of margarine. Sneakers that were still stiff from the store. Maybe a roll of thick, bleached paper towels.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Su papel en la vida la tiene absorbida. Sé muy bien por qué: su belleza le acarrea dramas y acontecimientos. Las ideas significan poco. Vi en ella una caricatura de personaje teatral y dramático. Disfraz, actitudes, forma de hablar. Es una actriz soberbia. Sólo eso. No he podido llegar a su interior.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Siempre odié lo que define la vida en ese lugar: el arribismo, el afán de figurar, el odio, la tacañería congénita. la envidia

Isabel had hated me on sight, and not because I was fat. Just because she could.

Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins. Shay's eyes flashed. Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies

In società ognuno viene preso per come si presenta; ma deve presentarsi in qualche modo. Alle persone insignificanti si preferiscono le persone scomode.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The