Quotes About Shallow

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

There were nearly as many frogs in the shallows, where lily pads floated. Some water lily flowers were white and some were yellow and some were the palest pink. Dragonflies darted above the water, their iridescent wings catching the glint of the sunlight.

He's every bit like his fireplace, the big dolt. Looks impressive, but there's not much going on underneath.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

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

An empty man is full of himself.

The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills.

Because they had no root, they withered away.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

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.

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.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal

The waters of Inle Lake are blue and so shallow you can see the bottom on a cloudless day. This is where ladies bathe their newborn babies. This is where the dead float with their eyes toward the sky. This was where my friends came the morning of Christmas Eve.

Each of us was becoming more isolated. The more we needed support, the more shallow were our friendships; the more we needed sincerity, the more sarcastic we became. It had become an unwritten law among the terns: don't tell what you feel, 'cause if you show a crack, you'll shatter. We imagined that our feelings could ruin us, like the great silent film stars had been ruined by sound.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

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