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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. -- Oscar Levant
Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid. -- Henry Selick
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. -- Juvenal
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. -- Vernon Howard
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. -- William Cowper
We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior. -- Shay Mitchell
I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be. -- Janelle Monae
The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart. -- Erin Wasson
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. -- Stephen Gardiner
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. -- Charlotte Rampling
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
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior. -- Marla Gibbs
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter. -- Elle Macpherson
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. -- Constantin Brancusi
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. -- Walt Whitman
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. -- Auguste Rodin
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. -- Constantin Brancusi
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
I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious. -- Mark Haddon
Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the body. It also serves as a mingling point between the outer world and inner self, and between body and soul. -- Miru Kim
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
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
Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. -- Tatiana Maslany
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. -- Pope Benedict XVI
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
If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves. -- Miranda Hart
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. -- Publilius Syrus
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. -- Samuel Foote
Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold. -- Ray Davies
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. -- William Cowper
. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions. -- Mary Martha Sherwood
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? -- John Milton
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. -- Gloria Estefan
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place. -- Ken Wilber
The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research. -- Hugh Downs
If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is. -- Agyness Deyn
Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it. -- Richelle Mead
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior -- Romain Gary
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow. -- Ian Kelsey
It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven. -- David Halberstam
Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night. -- Chess Desalls
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. -- Dan Aykroyd
If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior. -- Catherine McAuley
Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing. -- Janusz Kaminski
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win. -- Raymond Loewy
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces. -- Earl Nightingale
In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere. -- Janet Fitch
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. -- Stephen Gardiner
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. -- Alan Jay Lerner
No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. -- David Corbett
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. -- Judith Butler
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions. -- Arsenius the Great
In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. -- Aldo Leopold
For me, I have this tough exterior and these Angela Bassett arms, and people think, 'Oh, my God, Rutina's tough.' -- Rutina Wesley
You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis. -- Dave Barry
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life, -- Gene Robinson
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. -- Charles Baudelaire
If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior -- Oswald Chambers
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. -- Murray Kempton
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
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life. -- Gene Robinson
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
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. -- Emmanuelle Beart
Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes. -- Jane Roberts
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. -- Laura Esquivel
The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right. -- Eddie Redmayne
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. -- Sri Aurobindo
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. -- Constantin Brancusi
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.) -- Gail Carriger
What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you. -- Paulo Coelho
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within. -- Neale Donald Walsch
You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily. -- Antonio Banderas
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love... -- John of the Cross
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
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. -- Auguste Rodin
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you. -- James Hollis
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death. -- Cynthia Ozick
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. -- Mark Twain
Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. -- Jennifer Beals
. . . 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
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
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
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
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There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.... -- Thomas Aquinas
As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader. -- Kathryn Jean Lopez
I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior. -- Madi Diaz
Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. -- Jonathan Lethem
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
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. -- Franz Marc
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life. -- Oskar Kokoschka
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible? -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the dÃ©cor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place. -- Paul Valery
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection. -- Mark Twain
At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over. -- Jerry Garcia
They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan! -- Kelis
One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away. -- Blaise Cendrars
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot. -- Neil Gaiman
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon! -- Terence McKenna
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
I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America. -- Sergio Leone
Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future. -- Christian D. Larson
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions. -- Steven Saylor
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

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