Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this." — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil 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
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the… — Derren Brown 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
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver 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
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath 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
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