Best 77 quotes in «shallow quotes» category

I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

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

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.

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

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

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

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

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

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

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

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

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

The lips know only shallow tunes

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

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

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

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.

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

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

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.

Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

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

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.

Deep breaths are very useful with shallow people.

Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?

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

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

He’d thought he was over caring what people thought about him. He’d thought that loving Eleanor proved that. But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself.

Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

It wasn't that she was shallow, exactly, but everyone knows, looks are important for media work...

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual «There!» yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

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

it’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way.

My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.

Nimium ne crede colori

Marriage is deep. Don't marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown

People care much more for how things look than how things are.

People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civilization? An old bitch gone in the teeth,' And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.