Superficial Quotes

357 Superficial quotes by 300 unique authors

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot,… — Bar Refaeli
For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we… — David Gemmell
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol
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
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in… — Sufjan Stevens
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney
When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of… — Boaz Lavie
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing… — Marcel Proust
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation -… — Hans Hofmann
We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being… — Madonna Ciccone
I am deeply superficial. — Ava Gardner
To line only for some unknown future is superficial. — Abdul Kalam
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories. — Criss Jami
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us… — C.S. Lewis

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