Shallow Quotes

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

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.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

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

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.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

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.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

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.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

The Earth orbits round tables.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

Liking colors doesn't make you shallow.It gives you depth!

You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.

Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow an ocean can handle.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.