Shallow Quotes · Page 8

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

— Mel Torme

I have no respect fo women cause they listen to muh muzik. Muh raps is real shallow, or are you too deep…

— Lil' Wayne

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

— Anonymous

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Nick Cohen

A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.

— Sean Baker

“They’ll maintain the shallow illusion of success & happiness, no matter what happens.”

— Peace

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

— Walter Raleigh

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course,…

— Randy Shilts

The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of…

— Laozi

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to…

— Steven Cojocaru

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across…

— Moshe Kasher

“Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so…

— Sunday Adelaja

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and…

— Caroline Knapp

“Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked.…

— Sigmund Freud

Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm;…

— Jean Charest

“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop…

— Robert Boswell

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that…

— Bridget Riley

The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees…

— John Burroughs

Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…

— Anonymous

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many…

— William Matthews

The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar…

— Walter E. Williams

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers…

— Marvin Minsky

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

— John Caudwell

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

— Sigourney Weaver

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King…

— Susanna Clarke

The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them…

— Leandra Medine

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Anonymous

“We’re hot, we’re shallow, and everyone wants to fuck us because we know all the best tricks.”

— Kit Rocha

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most…

— Colin Firth

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

— Oscar Wilde

I don't deal with shallow minded people. And I won't care with the one who don't even care about others feeling.

— Anonymous

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

— Seth

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem…

— Denis Johnson

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would…

— Winona Ryder

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

— Nhat Hanh

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

— John Flansburgh