Top 100 Quotes About Exterior
#1. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#2. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.
Joseph Roth
#3. One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
Samuel Foote
#4. The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.
Aaron Siskind
#5. It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
Peter Ackroyd
#6. There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.
David Mazzucchelli
#7. Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
Hrithik Roshan
#8. She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit.
Max Gladstone
#9. Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.
Paul Of The Cross
#10. [L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.
Alexandre Dumas
#11. she knew the effort it took to keep one's exterior self together, upright, when everything inside was in pieces, broken beyond repair. One touch, one warm, compassionate hand, could shatter that hard-won perfect exterior. And then it would take years and years to restore it. So
Melanie Benjamin
#12. Exterior: the jungle. Interior: Dark night of the white man's soul.
Andrew Durbin
#13. The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
#14. Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
Eliot Porter
#15. Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart.
Dean Koontz
#16. She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?
Sherry Thomas
#17. She has a nice reading voice, I'll give her that, even though I suspect that underneath her polished exterior beats a heart of pure evil.
Cynthia Hand
#18. Men judge more from appearances than reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Everyone sees your exterior, but few can
discern what you have in your heart.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#19. Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others.
Osho
#20. At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.
Nicola Sturgeon
#22. Virtue is a step toward cultivating authentic beauty, for the love and grace that is within a woman is what truly shines through to make her radiant. Grace illuminates the exterior.
Jenessa Terraccino
#23. The link between nudity and sexuality is a modern invention. If there are no mysteries, there are no secrets, no shame when the time comes for him to Change. Our exterior bodies are borrowed treasures.
E.A. Copen
#24. I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.
Janelle Monae
#25. The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim.
Tom Robbins
#26. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.
Lisa Shearin
#27. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
#28. Belle saw now that his gruff, sometimes-frightening exterior masked a kind and loyal heart.
Jennifer Donnelly
#29. It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
Alexander Lowen
#31. Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.
Gustave Le Bon
#32. Beneath the handsome exterior beats a heart of darkness.
James Patterson
#33. There are some people who state that the exterior, sex, or physique of another person is indifferent to them, that they care only for the communion of mind with mind; but these people need not detain us. There are some statements that no one ever thinks of believing, however often they are made.
G.K. Chesterton
#34. There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Conquest directed toward
the interior of the country is called repression or propaganda ("the first step on the road to hell," according
to Frank). Directed toward the exterior, it creates the army.
Albert Camus
#36. Pride is like a facade on the exterior of our souls.
Jenni Catron
#37. The Mass is a memorial of Christ's sacrifice, not in the sense of an exterior commemoration, but as a living and supremely efficacious re-presentation of that sacrifice, pouring out into our hearts the redemptive power of the Cross and the grace of the resurrection, which enables us to live in God.
Thomas Merton
#38. A disdain full of disgust for those who don't realize that the only reality is each man's soul, and that everything else - the exterior world and other people - is but an unaesthetic nightmare
Fernando Pessoa
#39. I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.
David Bezmozgis
#40. Donna wasn't fooled by his lazy movements and sleep eyes - this guy was sharp, underneath the laid-back exterior.
Karen Mahoney
#41. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.
Andrew Klavan
#42. Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.
Emmy Rossum
#43. We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade. We've forgotten that we are the light-the electricity and the luminosity that lights up every man, woman, and child. The light is who we truly are.
Michael Beckwith
#44. I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.
Lin Shaye
#45. No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger.
Dorothy Allison
#46. If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior
Oswald Chambers
#47. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
William Cowper
#48. Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.
Kate Griffin
#49. I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.
Richard Bode
#50. But then, it was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly. A
Kristin Cashore
#51. Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.
Chess Desalls
#52. A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function
Gottfried Bohm
#53. Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
Murray Kempton
#54. Under that smiling exterior," Casey said ominously as we took our seats, "lies the soul of a ruthless killer.
Robin Brande
#55. I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.
Robert Richardson
#56. The Bow's passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building's exterior.
Jeanne Gang
#57. Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.
Marilyn Suttle
#58. I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
Jason Mraz
#59. A sweet gum tree is the chameleon of wood, it's corky exterior hiding it's inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to mahogany. But it's real value, one unrealized by most people, is it's deep red heart, steady and strong.
Katherine Allred
#60. I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
Gore Vidal
#61. In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#62. We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.
Shay Mitchell
#63. An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.
Henry Ward Beecher
#64. Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.
NeNe Leakes
#65. As all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#66. I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.
John McLaughlin
#67. Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#68. In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#69. You have a very prickly exterior that needs to be navigated very carefully. Kind of like a really sexy cactus.
Michelle Rowen
#70. No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.
Neale Donald Walsch
#71. There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#72. I suspect, more than voyeurism, that it has something to do with control. Control is a food that Nathan seems to feed on, devouring it with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior.
Alessandra Torre
#73. Peace within us translates to our exterior world. Our outer and inner state of peace is directly related to each other. It's simply impossible to have lasting peace around us unless we have peace within us.
Janice Anderson
#74. In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.
Jimenez Lai
#75. This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.
David Frost
#76. If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.
Catherine McAuley
#77. The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.
Robert Duvall
#78. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#79. Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior zooming by, it's completely CGI.
Daniel Simon
#80. Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.
Janusz Kaminski
#81. Perhaps real love doesn't recognize a person, it recognizes a space in another. Space that allows us to show and receive love. Space that is supportive of self-expression. A safe space. It looks past the exterior human "shell.
Camille Lucy
#82. God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance ... but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#83. The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.
Samael Aun Weor
#84. Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people.
Joel Stein
#86. The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.
Barry Lopez
#87. Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.
Richelle Mead
#88. You can change the exterior in a fairly short period of time, but the heart takes a whole lot longer.
Suzanne Supplee
#89. I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,
his manners, his mien, his exterior,
that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him
rarely in his mind.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#91. The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.
Gaston Bachelard
#92. The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
Tony Hale
#93. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.
Greta Gerwig
#94. To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.
Agyness Deyn
#96. When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.
Sarah Shahi
#97. Everything about him was so familiar...yet somehow it was like coming back to a house she had lived in as a child, and knowing that though the exterior might look the same, a different family lived there now
Cassandra Clare
#98. ; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
Simone De Beauvoir
#99. Unfortunately, I'm drawn to a rare species of bad boy exterior/good guy interior. Give me a Harley Davidson and a pair of aviators and I'm weak in the knees."
"I have a Harley," he blurted
"I know
Lucy McConnell
#100. You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.
Neale Donald Walsch
