Vapid Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years…
— Carolyn Wells
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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested…
— Annie Lennox
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
— Edward Abbey
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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives…
— David Ogilvy
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I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to…
— Marilyn Manson
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Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked…
— George Ayittey
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or…
— Mary MacLane
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I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good…
— Kristin Hersh
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
— Wallace Stevens
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I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different…
— Fran Kranz
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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication…
— Jaron Lanier
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Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful…
— John Green
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious.…
— Francine Pascal
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We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared…
— Patti Smith
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She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced…
— Kiersten White
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The…
— William S. Burroughs
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Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids…
— Maurice Sendak
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When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and…
— Washington Irving
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I like my friends here in London. They're intelligent and not looking over my shoulder at dinner to see if there's anyone better walking in.…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Who Wrote These Vapid Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Vapid Quotes as follows: