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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. -- Maggie Gallagher
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. -- Manuel Puig
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. -- Emile M. Cioran
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade. -- Norman Granz
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing. -- Lionel Richie
I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. -- Alanis Morissette
We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway. -- Joel Kinnaman
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. -- Tom Waits
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. -- Minoru Yamasaki
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade. -- Trisha Goddard
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. -- David O. Selznick
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. -- E. M. Forster
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. -- Amelia B. Edwards
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. -- Alan Moore
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. -- Stephen Gardiner
Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics. -- David Chang
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? -- Aravind Adiga
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. -- Peter Zumthor
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes. -- Bryan Callen
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. -- Mel Gibson
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade -- Anish Kapoor
I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable. -- Pete Wentz
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. -- Anish Kapoor
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance. -- Sam Storms
Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade. -- Nigel Barker
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. -- Douglas Hofstadter
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. -- Edward Levi
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. -- Edward Levi
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. -- Adyashanti
When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...] -- Simone Elkeles
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. -- LeRoy Neiman
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education. -- Leon Krier
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe. -- Irving Penn
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. -- Thomas S. Monson
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are. -- James Young
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you. -- Jack Canfield
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade. -- Lupe Fiasco
Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask. -- Sreesha Divakaran
Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. -- Dean Koontz
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible. -- Criss Jami
I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out. -- Richard Paul Evans
All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen. -- Jessiqua Wittman
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. -- Criss Jami
Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring. -- Cassandra Clare
Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade. -- Suzanne Young
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? -- Arthur Miller
I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. -- Ellen Hopkins
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center. -- Deb Caletti
I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. -- Kurt Cobain
Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur. -- John Fowles
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. -- Lisa Unger
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether. -- Neil Postman
[...][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing. -- Anne Bishop
My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality. -- Kenneth Everett
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw -- Charles Bukowski
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade. -- Charles Bukowski
Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly. -- Stanislaw Lem
All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. -- Robert Grudin
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is. -- Ann Voskamp
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. -- Mason Cooley
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Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy. -- William James
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin. -- Jeaniene Frost
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. -- Murray Levin
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. -- Robert Ringer
Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness. -- Warren Farrell
Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart. -- Angelica Hopes
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness. -- Warren Farrell
Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show. -- Harry Hay
...he was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade... -- Robert McCammon
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died -- Donato DiCristino
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. -- Charles Darwin
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. -- John Astin
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. -- John Eldredge
Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people. -- Jim Highsmith
When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin? -- Ellen Hopkins
I am who I am. There's no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn't concern me. Maybe that's the sexy part. -- Gerard Way
I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building. -- Casey Neistat
It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing. -- Wyclef Jean
My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. -- Justina Chen
Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith. -- Dan Brown
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Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade. -- Lisa Kleypas
The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America. -- Huey Newton
The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love. -- Lester Levenson
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward. -- Zeena Schreck
We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety. -- Anna Quindlen
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Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory." -- Elizabeth Taylor
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world. -- Richard Ney
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. -- Milton H. Erickson

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