Shallow Quotes

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

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.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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

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.

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.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.