John Henry Newman Quotes

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

You can't be deep without a surface

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

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.

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.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

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

Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

I am deeply superficial.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.