Top 626 Shallow Quotes & Sayings

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.

One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.

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

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

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

The lips know only shallow tunes

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

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

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

I’m a shallow, shallow boy. Hey, it helps that you’re pretty. It brings out the nice guy in me. Makes me what to share my cookies with you.

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

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Shallow men believe in luck.

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

If football covers all your emotions, that's too shallow for me.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

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.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

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

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.

When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.

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

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.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.