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I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. — S.A. Tawks

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

A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion. — Anonymous

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. — Laura Mullen

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. — Gao Xingjian

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly — Natalie Portman

Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date. — Truth Devour

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. — Ross Perot

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. — Diana Gabaldon

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. — Edith Hamilton

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. — Idries Shah

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

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. — Joseph Glanvill

The difference between people and ideas is ... only superficial. — Richard M. Rorty

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii. — Michael Martin Hammer

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that. — Morris Gleitzman

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed. — Annie Lennox

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. — Jeanloup Sieff

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. — Frederick William Robertson

A free soul can truly be at rest. Only a free soul can see the world as it is, superficial and fleeting. — Ilchi Lee

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. — David Platt

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. — David LaChapelle

The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before. — Ransom Riggs

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman. — Alyscia Cunningham

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding. — Lysa TerKeurst

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us. — Billy Graham

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

I am a deeply superficial person. — Andy Warhol

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

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial. — Cameron Russell

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan. — Leonardo DiCaprio

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. — Kim Stanley Robinson

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation. — Marshall McLuhan

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. — Will Durant

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively. — Joan Hickson

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us. — Syesha Mercado

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging. — Christopher Nolan

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

There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan. — Francine Pascal

I am a superficial woman of depth. — Melissa Broder

Never lose your sense of the superficial. — Alfred Harmsworth

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

I'm a deeply superficial person. — Andy Warhol

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

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

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent. — Jack Vance

A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance. — T. Rafael Cimino

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

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. — Brigitte Bardot

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds. — Steve Tisch

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. — Kurt Cobain

I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across. — Sebastian Horsley

A character's want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a — John Yorke

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy. — John Bevere

Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. — H.P. Lovecraft

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

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche

sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach. — Ryan Holiday

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at ... — Jay Maisel

Men weigh love with hands. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men's opinions are superficial and confused. — John Locke

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface. — Johnny Rich

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli

Most people who shop for OSes (if they bother to shop at all) are comparing not the underlying functions but the superficial look and feel. — Anonymous

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. — Salvador Dali

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

Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell — Novala Takemoto

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial. — Kedar Joshi

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects. — Thomas Sowell

Deep down I'm superficial — Anne Penketh

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. — Emily Mortimer

Jas. I don't normally like Katie Steadman that much. She's OK but I get the impression she thinks I am a bit on the superficial side. — Anonymous

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony. — Thomas Hardy

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama

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

Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them. — Ljupka Cvetanova

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

The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower. — Lao-Tzu

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial. — Verne Troyer

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

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups. — Oliver

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving. — Alexandra Katehakis

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

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn. — Bar Refaeli

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. — Jodi Picoult

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity. — Nick Offerman

To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable. — Adam Smith

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work. — David Ogilvy

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