Top 1200 Shallow Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

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

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

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

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

I always feel like when I work with people, I work with everybody - from the person that's working the camera to the person that's running the water to the person that's putting the clothes on me, the person that's combing my hair, my makeup, the person that's like, 'You gotta sign these papers.' I try to hang out with everybody.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

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.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

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.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

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

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

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.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

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 must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

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

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.

With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats in the Highlands. Then 'Trainspotting' made it fashionable.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

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

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.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

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.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.