Facile Quotes
Calling something facile is rarely a compliment; it points to an answer, joke, or comparison that's too easy to hold real weight. This collection of facile quotes looks at where that word shows up, from awards and comedy to the harder work artists say facile shortcuts can never replace.
Not every accomplishment worth having comes easily, which is why so many public figures push back against America's appetite for facile praise.
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
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If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many...
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.
Age Quotes
I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary...
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
