Shallow Quotes
We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.
O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
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.
In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.
You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.
We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.
You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media.
I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.
Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.