Superficial Quotes - Page 8

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

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Travel, Add, Surface

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series”, p.220

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• To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

  George Eliot

  Causes, Vanishing, Fit

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.182, Penguin

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• When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

  Boaz Lavie

  Thinking, Zombie, Dying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Creating, World

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

  Jess C Scott

  Beautiful, Reflection, Superficial Things

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)”, p.68, jessINK

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• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

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• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

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

  Verne Troyer

  Girl, Fake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

  Holland Taylor

  Character, Play, People

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• Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Creative

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• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Curiosity

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• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  Kiki Smith

  Sibling, America, People

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• I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Real, Character, Special

  "Aubrey Plaza's Ready to Play Bubbly Cheerleader". Interview with Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

  Carmen Kass

  New York, Ambition, Too Much

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• The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  People, Political, Steel

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  Marcel Proust

  Expression, Giving, May

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.575, Modern Library

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• The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Fall, People, Facts

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• Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

  Steve Tisch

  Thinking, Errors, Judgment

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• People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

  Ali Hewson

  Country, Fashion, People

  "Ali Hewson makes fashion in the name of love". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

  David Trumble

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• The basic struggle today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession of a materialized society.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Struggle

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• As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

  Trinny Woodall

  Self Worth, Thinking, Clothes

  "MEN Reader Meets Trinny and Susannah". Interview with Helen Tither, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

  Marjane Satrapi

  White, Evil, Superhero

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thoughtful, Wife

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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