Top 1200 Superficial Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

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

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

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

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

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

I'm sure critics feel that there's more to me than superficial glamor.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

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

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

Liking beauty doesn't mean you're superficial.

The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

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

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

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.

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

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

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

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that's just superficial.

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

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

I am deeply superficial.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

I've never been no superficial cat.

Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

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

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

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

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

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific ideas, it just becomes a little bit too superficial, and then performances might become too self-conscious and project relatively narrow things.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

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

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.