Quotes About Superficiality

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.

We live in times where the speed of our life is increasing but leading us nowhere.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

I don't like the energy at award shows. It's rehearsed and everybody is just focused on themselves and nobody wants to genuinely applaud for anyone else. People aren't even listening if someone is giving a speech on stage.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Der Eindruck, den Effi empfing, war überall derselbe: mittelmäßige Menschen, von meist zweifelhafter Liebenswürdigkeit, die, während sie vorgaben, über Bismarck und die Kronprinzessin zu sprechen, eigentlich nur Effis Toilette musterten, die von einigen als zu prätentios für eine so jugendliche Dame, von andern als zu wenig dezent für eine Dame von gesellschaftlicher Stellung befunden wurde.

There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide.

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

We are so miserably shallow Josh, how do we stand ourselves?

The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.