Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

The man [President Woodrow Wilson] has no sense of things that penetrates below the surface. With him the rhetoric of a thing is the thing itself.

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

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Outward appearances mean everything.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Beauty is only skin deep.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

The whole art of a political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

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.

All tongue, without either head or heart.’

Appearances do matter.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.