Shallow Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

Only the shallow know themselves.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

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

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

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

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

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.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

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.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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.