Honore de Balzac Quotes

I don't have any hidden depths; I'm a very superficial person. It's a constant frustration to me.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

Vanity is but the surface.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

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

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

Frankly, I have a lot of interests, and I am not all that wedded only to banking.

I've always been interested in many different things.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

The PQ is diverse and vast. It's not monolithic.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.