Shallow Quotes

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

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.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

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.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

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!

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

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

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.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

I’m a shallow, shallow boy. Hey, it helps that you’re pretty. It brings out the nice guy in me. Makes me what to share my cookies with you.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.