Shallow Quotes

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

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.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

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

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

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

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.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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