Quotes About Shallow

Nor could she frame deeper words herself; human understandings trickled shallow these days. It was the way.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

It was an example of a common phenomenon in American journalism (perhaps in social criticism in general), the shallow focusing on agents or on individuals, thus concealing what a deeper analysis would reveal—the failure of the government itself, indeed, of the political system.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the youngest place - there's no history to Los Angeles. Everything's fake.

I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free. Only, because your eyes are wide open, you see right away that you can't float in what you're in. You can only sink. That's why the meanest religions work so hard at keeping their followers ignorant. Knowledge is poison. Wisdom is depthless. Staying ignorant keeps you in the shallows.

The artisans are creatures of artifice; very shallow individuals.

It's kind of disappointing and disgusting in a way, how some people are focusing on how we look.

My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.

There are a lot of morons out there who only go by appearances

Time goes faster the more hollow it is.

Empty words almost echo within themselves

It can be tiring knowing so many people with hidden depths," Joe said. "Some days, shallow is good.

As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration. -Sookie

These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.

But he discovered that his thoughts and inspirations were like the intimations of a dream, which always seem inspired at the time but prove utterly shallow and useless to the waking mind.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

But after a while, if you've got some musical ears, you pick up on the difference between Pat Boone's "Ain't That a Shame" and Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame." Not that Pat Boone's was particularly bad, he was a very good singer, but it was just so shallow

Shallow rivers and shallow minds freeze first.

even though we're not capable of spending a full day in a state of blissful depth, this reality shouldn't reduce the urgency of reducing shallow work, as the typical knowledge workday is more easily fragmented than many suspect.