Quotes About Superficiality

Men of profound thought appear to themselves in intercourse with others like comedians, for in order to be understood they must always simulate superficiality.

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

For me and my drag, I think camp is about exaggeration and artifice and the celebration of superficiality. A lot of my fans look up to me as a figure of femininity but that's all artifice. That's all fake and that's campy within itself, and so that's what resonates to me: the seriousness and the funniness and the artifice and the exaggeration.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.

The lesser the talent, the longer they spent on the red carpet.

All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

All Pennella ever did was brag about places he'd visited, money he spent, and people he met.

Appearances: People tend to focus on the outer appearances but it's the inner self that really matters. What you see on the outside doesn't always match what's on the inside. You might be something very special on the inside but people are so fixated and judgmental about what they see on the outside that they don't give you a fair chance and that's an injustice, a tragedy.

Uop?e nisu bili loši ljudi. Samo su bili isprazna stvorenja. Sve neprimjereno što bi uradili dolazilo je odatle. Pred zijevaju?om prazninom svoje vlastite unutrašnjosti mogu su osvijestiti svoju li?nost i zadovoljiti se samo dok druge ljude tretiraju kao nevažne, vrije?aju ih i smiju im se.

?nsanlar aras?ndaki münasebetleri tanzim eden amiller ne kadar gülünç, ne kadar d??tan, ne kadar bo? ve bilhassa as?l insanl?kla ne kadar az alakas? olan ?eylerdi.

Hiç de fena insanlar de?illerdi. Yaln?z bo?, bombo? mahluklard?. Yapt?klar? münasebetsizlikler hep buradan geliyordu.

Tokenism benefits only a few. It never benefits the masses, and the masses are the ones who have the problem, not the few. That one who benefits from tokenism, he doesn't want to be around us anyway—that's why he picks up on the token

They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.

Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.

I think of her as a woman for whom every act is done for show, is acting rather than a real act. She does such things to look good, I think. She's out to make the best of it.

And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not... I kept on loving the pretty clothes - and not him at all.