#superficial

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#being #gives #habit #long #right

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

#knees #like #painful #skinned #superficial

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#better #called #categorized #compliment #considered

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

I am a deeply superficial person. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#deeply #i #i am #person #superficial

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#face #going #guts #harsh #i

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

— Diane Kruger

#guess #i #modeling #superficial #well

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#broken #commercial #disguised #effect #false