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.

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.

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

I've never been no superficial cat.

I am deeply superficial.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

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.

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

To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a deeply superficial person.

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

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

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

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

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.