Veneer Quotes

The council is in some ways worse than what we had before, because it lends a veneer of improvement ... to an apparatus that is still likely to be co-opted by despots. - Nile Gardiner

The company made drawer sides from oak, mostly high-end bedroom and dining furniture. Tyler Plywood cut exotic veneers, walnut, mahogany, cherry - just about any type of wood you could think of on the higher end. - Steve Tyler

Ivory was thought to very closely approximate human flesh. Like makeup you could put on a very thin veneer. A wash of watercolor paint is like putting on blush. - Betsy Wieseman

It looks ridiculously unnatural up close, but Hollywood is the place where fakeness is celebrated. It's another example of extreme mouth makeovers. ... Now you have a completely fake smile: pillow lips, bleached teeth and veneers. - Tom O'Neil

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

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. - Shirley Jackson

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. - Steve Jobs