“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.” — Malcolm Watts Copy Share Image
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in. — Steven Klein Copy Share Image
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's… — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's… — George Mastras Copy Share Image
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live.… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I used to have the craziest fear of losing teeth. I would have nightmares about that all the time. But it's the… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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