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Quotes About Shallow

La gente no habla de nada. –Oh, tienen que hablar de algo. –No, no, de nada. Citan automóviles, ropas, piscinas, y dicen ¡qué bien! Pero siempre repiten lo mismo, y nadie dice nada diferente, y la mayor parte del tiempo, en los cafés, hacen funcionar los gramófonos automáticos de chistes, y escuchan chistes viejos
~ Ray Bradbury
People don't talk about anything." "Oh, they must!" "No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell!
~ Ray Bradbury
Mindenki nagyon barátságosan viselkedett vele szemben, és senki sem volt hozzá igazán kedves; mindenki szóba állt vele, és mindenki csak semmiségeket mondott neki.
~ Joseph Heller
The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
~ Wes Jackson
Trust me, beaut fades, but dumb is forever.
~ Dave Rubin
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty — unless she is wed to something more meaningful — is always superficial.
~ Donna Tartt
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
~ Aesop
We think our Goal is Happiness.And pleasures do we seek. So shallow is our passion that we never reach the peak.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
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.
~ Lenny Bruce
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
~ Lenny Kravitz
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
~ John McCarthy
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
~ Raymond Chandler
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
~ Raymond Chandler
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing. Here we go again.
~ Raymond Chandler
Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken
~ Raymond Chandler
I think of that lost world, the way we lived before these new networking technologies, as having two poles: solitude and communion. The new chatter puts us somewhere in between, assuaging fears of being alone without risking real connection. It is a shallow between two deeper zones, a safe spot between the dangers of contact with ourselves, with others.
~ Rebecca Solnit
nowadays, in the digital landscape, friends and followers have come to mean different, watered-down things. Many people know one another without knowing them at all. And are happy with that superficiality.
~ Julian Barnes
We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity. . . . we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about
~ Karin Slaughter
I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.
~ Sharon Gless
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
Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.
~ Nikki Sixx