This collection holds 85 exterior quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Cowper, Samuel Foote and Rosie Perez.

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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than ... - William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

I know you can do anything you put your mind to and the exterior doesn't matter.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.

You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

For me, I have this tough exterior and these Angela Bassett arms, and people think, 'Oh, my God, Rutina's tough.'

We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

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.

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.

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.

I think I've proven that I'm issue-oriented and I'm not apolitical. But I'm not a journalist and I don't want to be one with that veneer exterior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.

There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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