Shallow Quotes - page 3

The man is a humbug - a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull... (C. S. Lewis)
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really. View quote
Mary Balogh
Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen! View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
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. View quote
Susanna Clarke
I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse) View quote
Charlaine Harris
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. View quote
Deb Caletti
I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. View quote
John Shelby Spong
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. View quote
Ali Hewson
Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. (Brooke Burns)
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. View quote
Fran Kranz
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. View quote
George Wendt
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. View quote
Gordon Getty
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly. View quote
Gary Larson
Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living. View quote
Jack Davenport
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! View quote
Steven Cojocaru
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. View quote
Will McDonough
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness. View quote
Rajneesh
On the dust of our heroic ancestors we too sit ballot-boxing, saying to one another, It is well, it is well! By inheritance of their noble struggles, we have been permitted to sit slothful so long. By noble toil, not by shallow laughter and vain talk, they made this English Existence from a savage forest into an arable inhabitable field for us; and we, idly dreaming it would grow spontaneous crops forever,-find it now in too questionable a state. (Thomas Carlyle)
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
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. View quote
Ewan McGregor
In what a narrow circuit, among what abandoned solitudes your fame lies bound! Amid vast seas your island earth is shut, though "vast" or "ocean", or what words resound to name that sea, are idle names and fond, for what it is: a shallow bog, a pond. View quote
Torquato Tasso
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. Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt