Superficial Quotations

Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

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

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

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

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I am deeply superficial.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

I've never been no superficial cat.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

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

In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

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

I wouldn't want to be 20 now. I know so much more, and I'm much more comfortable in my skin, saggy as it is When I hear young girls complaining about superficial things You're at the peak of your physical beauty right now! Just enjoy it and stop worrying about your thighs being too big If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

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

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

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

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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

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