#superficial

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends. ↗

— Graham Greene

#creative-process #daily-life #preoccupations #subconscious #superficiality

...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved... ↗

— John Geddes

#hurt #love #superficiality #love

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extremism #opinion #opinions #passion #rationalism

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

— Will Durant

#his #love #man #old #old man

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

— Kiana Tom

#attract #being #gym #looks #me

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

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #effects #frivolous #result #sophisticated

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all. ↗

— Megan Fox

#could #hollywood #i #most #part

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#attention #comedy #comedy shows #i #kinds

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space. ↗

— Cillian Murphy

#about #doing #down #gone #i

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information. ↗

— Cillian Murphy

#information #learn #phases #superficially #through