Superficial Quotes · Page 4

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

— Martin Amis

I don't have any hidden depths; I'm a very superficial person. It's a constant frustration to me.

— Stephen Merchant

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

— Ai Weiwei

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

— Augustus William Hare

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

— Carmen Kass

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…

— David Brainerd

I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A…

— Jim Gaffigan

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only…

— Samuel Johnson

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self…

— Thomas Merton

“Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything…

— Liz Kessler

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form…

— Cornel West

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to…

— Robin Boyd

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and…

— Lee Strobel

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I…

— Andy Cohen

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be…

— Vera Brittain

The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go…

— Francis Frangipane

I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know…

— Barack Obama

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to…

— Norman Cousins

I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very…

— Lucinda Creighton

I was waiting for the right guy to come along, but maybe I didn't actually want one, or was not available emotionally.…

— Andy Cohen

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

— Johnny Depp

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

— Ruzwana Bashir

I'm sure critics feel that there's more to me than superficial glamor.

— Sherlyn Chopra

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

— Frank Knight

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

— Charles Spurgeon

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

— Christopher Nolan

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

— Andy Cohen

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

— Andrew Wyeth

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

— George R. R. Martin

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

— Yolanda Hadid

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

— Pope Francis

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

— Russell Smith

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

— Ishmael Butler