Shallow famous quotes

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

#Water #Shallow #Shallow Water

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
-- Anne Lamott

#Perfection #Shallow #Unreal

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
-- Anne Rice

#Hero #Shallow

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
-- Bob Goff

#Grace #Shallow #Ends

The lips know only shallow tunes
-- Calvin Miller

#Tunes #Lips #Shallow

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Sea #Lord #Shallow

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Depth #Culture #Shallow

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
-- Edie Brickell

#Water #Shallow #Choke

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

#Doe #Dry #Shallow

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.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Done #Remember #Shallow

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.
-- George Wendt

#Way #Shallow #Honestly

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

#Mean #Shallow #Well Being

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
-- Graham Norton

#Sound #Shallow #Members

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
-- Guru Nanak

#Sweet #Mind #Shallow

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
-- Jim Morrison

#Sweat #Building #Shallow

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
-- Jim Rohn

#Voice #Tunes #Shallow

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford

#Mean #Shallow

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.
-- Kelly Reilly

#Self #Acting #Shallow

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
-- Kim Edwards

#Sea #World #Shallow

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder
-- Leon Kass

#Soul #Forgotten #Shallow

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Bugs #Enough #Shallow

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
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Trying #Ems #Shallow

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.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Heart #Broken #Shallow

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

#Song #Fairness #Shallow

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
-- Neville Goddard

#Water #Attention #Shallow

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

#Shallow #Marxist #Capitalism

It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.
-- Octavius Winslow

#Heart #Views #Shallow

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Attitude #Belief #Shallow

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
-- Pat Paulsen

#Shallow

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
-- Pete Townshend

#Dancing #Perception #Shallow

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

#Way #Pockets #Shallow

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

#Ideas #Depth #Shallow

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.
-- Rives

#Baking #Internet #Shallow

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

#Sailing #Ships #Shallow

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women,
-- Sharon Gless

#Men #Thinking #Shallow

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
-- Stephen Schwartz

#Self #Excuse #Shallow

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

#Wicked #Shallow #Hundred

You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Profound #Shallow #Be Good

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
-- Ueda Akinari

#Men #Shallow

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

#Talent #Shallow #Faculty

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.
-- Eddie Jemison

#Kids #Midwest #Shallow

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.
-- Elsie Lincoln Benedict

#Thinking #Deep Breathing #Shallow

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.
-- Ian Kelsey

#Superficial #Shallow #Exterior

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.
-- L.A. Paul

#Shallow

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.
-- Steven J Lawson

#Wade #Enough #Shallow

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

#Helping Others #Soul #Shallow

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
-- Andrew Breitbart

#Belief #Embarrassing #Shallow

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.
-- Moshe Kasher

#Trying #Demon #Shallow

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.
-- Charles Haughey

#Shallow Person #Shallow #Persons

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.
-- Dale Peck

#Contemporary Fiction #Easy #Shallow

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

#Men #Inner Beauty #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.
-- Will McDonough

#Enough #Shallow #Results