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Quotes About Shallow

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
~ K. D. Lang
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.
~ Brandon Sanderson
When Scripture, prayer, worship, ministry become routine, they are dead. When I conclude that I can now cope with the awful love of God, I have headed for the shallows to avoid the deeps. I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
~ Brennan Manning
We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.
~ Henry David Thoreau
O convívio social, geralmente, é banal demais
~ Henry David Thoreau
Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out.
~ Henry Fielding
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
~ Lady Gaga
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
~ Carmen Kass
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
~ Jane Jacobs
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
~ Stephen Schwartz
it is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.
~ Steven Brust
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!
~ Steven Cojocaru
I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
~ John Corbett
There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
~ Andy Kindler
Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn't people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?
~ Michel Faber
You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
We'll slide down the surface of things...
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Il Canonico rispose che lui non era affatto d'idee larghe e che, per dire il vero, questo non gli dispiaceva, perché la larghezza d'idee spesso non era altro che superficialità.
~ Bruce Marshall
Sadece güncel deneyimiyle yaÅŸayan bir uygarl?k esasen çorak bir uygarl?kt?r.
~ Terry Eagleton
I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.
~ John Cooper Clarke
not big enough is like rejecting a book because it
~ Karen MacNeil
Ah, my long-lost shallow life.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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.
~ G.E.M. Anscombe