“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless… — Heidi Montag Copy Share Image
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion…But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just trust certain intuitions on certain things. As we age, I start to follow it without being scared. So whatever… — Mauro Remiddi Copy Share Image
We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“The numerous choices you have around yourself are often superficial; they don’t matter. The art lies in doing more with less. Minimal… — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I… — Bar Refaeli Copy Share Image
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow. — Ian Kelsey Copy Share Image
Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But what if the beautiful things don't mean anything? What if they're just superficial? What if the ugly stuff is stronger?” — K.L. Denman Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Most of Hollywood is informed in a very superficial way, only based on what they see on this television channel or the… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the… — Parineeti Chopra Copy Share Image
In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
