Quotes About Superficiality

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Superficialitatea ce exist? la sursa unor atare prejudec??i este revolt?toare ÅŸi originea ei livresc? este de natur? a nulifica în conÅŸtiinÅ£a mea toate bibliotecile în faÅ£a unei singure experienÅ£e tr?ite pîn? la margini.

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.

Mystery — a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you're just another bum. If you're being cool, you TV people don't get recognized. But if you're going to sign autographs and records, then you'll have some trouble.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

Some movies are entirely too heavy, and some movies have no meat in them.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

To look at these two, one would have supposed that the tall, humanlike machine, Threepio, was the master and the stubby, tripodal robot, Artoo Detoo, an inferior. But while Threepio might have sniffed disdainfully at the suggestion, they were in fact equal in everything save loquacity.

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.

Görüntü; görüntü her ÅŸeyden önemlidir mon ami... Aç görünmek ölümcüldür. Ä°nsanlarda seni tekmeleme isteÄŸi uyand?r?r.

After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees — the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.

When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me that he has offered for an insipid female who has neither fortune nor any extraordinary degree of beauty, besides being stupidly shy and dowdy, I – oh, I could go into strong hysterics!