Quotes About Superficiality

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

Onun tümüyle kendisinin olmas?n?, kendisini bütün varl???yla ona vermeyi istiyordu, ama ona her ÅŸeyi vermeye ne kadar çok çabalarsa, pek derin olmayan, yüzeysel bir aÅŸk?n ya da flört etmenin gerektirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyleri genç adamdan esirgediÄŸi duygusuna da o kadar çok kap?l?yordu.Kendisini ciddiliÄŸi hafiflikle birleÅŸtirememekle k?n?yordu.

Tinha um rosto bonito e vazio. Suficientemente bonito para atrair os homens e suficientemente vazio para deixar que nele se perdessem todas as suas súplicas. Além disso, era um rosto orgulhoso,e Jakub sabia: orgulhoso não da sua boniteza, mas do seu vazio.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet. Jean: What, you're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always be thinner... look better. Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose your willpower. Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway. Share this quote

You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.

Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her

Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.

Hardbody." McDermott nods in agreement. "Definitely." "I'm not impressed," Price sniffs. "Look at her knees." While the hardbody stands there we check her out, and though her knees do support long, tan legs, I can't help noticing that one knee is, admittedly, bigger than the other one. The left knee is knobbier, almost imperceptibly thicker than the right knee and this unnoticeable flaw now seems overwhelming and we all lose interest.

Why not end up with her? floats into my line of vision. An answer: she has a better body than most other girls I know. Another one: everyone is interchangeable anyway.

All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.

Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged …

She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks—her currency in this world—and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.

Like these girls care," Price snorts. "When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn't matter less.

We'll slide down the surface of things...

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel my flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense that our lifestyles are probably comparable - I simply am not there.

Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.

The host on the TV was fawning over an actress who thought she was brilliant because she happened to have been born beautiful and read lines written by other people. It amazed Alex what qualified a person for being worthy of adulation.

confused elitist. She thinks the kind of car you drive defines you, along with your zip code.

She sighed again. She was familiar with the syndrome. They said they wanted a soulmate and helpmeet but sooner or later the list would include a skin like silk and a chest fit for a herd of cows.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.