Quotes About Superficiality

Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Some people are so fake that they make Pamela Anderson's boobies look real!

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Tengo la sensación de que vivimos en una Sociedad que observa las cosas de una manera muy superficial. Nuestra mirada revolotea de aquí para allá y normalmente sólo se para ante lo que nos parece sorprendente. Hoy falta alcance para ver más allá de lo aparente, falta profundidad para reflexionar sobre las realidades más importantes de la vida y, falta amplitud para descubrir la manera en la que todo está interconectado ", pag. 23.

The worst thing about pro football is that a lot of it has nothing to do with football. It has so much business and hair spray crusted over it: so many sideshows and expert panels "breaking things down for us" and a whole lot of people you don't want to deal with or watch on TV [...].

Artificial pleasures arrive stillborn; they have no life of their own.

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6

we have come to invest so much attention on something so shallow.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest.

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

Were so superficial nowadays. We love with our eyes and not our heart.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

All too often, even the most glamorous rebels are just as unappealing, under the surface, as the imperialist tyrants themselves.

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.