Quotes of: Veneer Keyword

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Karin Tansek

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Liz Phair

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Evan Esar

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Donna Lynn Hope

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

Bryan Batt

I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

Steven Klein

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

Lena Headey

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Steve Jobs

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

The Nightlife: Paris

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

Stephen Merchant

You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Isla and the Happily Ever After

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The Left Hand of Darkness

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Ted Dekker