So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's…

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations,…

— Graham Greene

When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to…

— Darryl Pinckney

A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.

— Kim Petras

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

— Matthew Kelly

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the…

— Umberto Eco

“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He…

— Edith Wharton

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

It's better to shake off superficial sometimes fake friends. There's a lot of truth in the old saying birds of a feather flock together.

— Anonymous

“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that I had…

— Bret Easton Ellis

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

— Richard J. Foster

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless…

— Barry Diller

“Many people measure their self-worth based on how much money they make... once one is able to provide for basic physical needs (food shelter,…

— Mark Manson