Shallow Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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