A Quote by Oscar Levant

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character Enormous Exterior Lack Lack Of Character Underneath

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Oscar Levant
American - Composer
December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Alan Jay Lerner

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

Ray Davies

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Henry Selick

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.

Igor Babailov

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Annie Lennox

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

T. Harv Eker

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

Steven Saylor

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

Ken Wilber

Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

Anthony de Mello

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

Romain Gary

If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.

Ignace Lepp

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.