Shallow Quotes

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.