Veneer Quotes

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

Hope, Today, Tomorrow

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

Design, Nothing, Means

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac

General, Courtesy, Thin

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

Life, Short, Worth

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

Good, Art, Kindness

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, Nothing, After

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
Liz Phair

Good, Perfection, Wearing

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
Carlos Fuentes

Live, Sometimes, Continue

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
John McGahern

Church, Class, Middle

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.
Susan Faludi

Leadership, Government, American

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

Someone, Nothing, Lost

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

Truth, Job, Put

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