Shallow Quotes

• Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Life
  • Fake
  • Modern

• Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Choices

• I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Age
  • Imagine
  • Pool

• On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Idea
  • False

• I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Real
  • Commitment
  • Shallow

• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • World
  • Culture
  • Democratic

• Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Social
  • Movement
  • Benefits

• Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

  

  John Milton
  • Books
  • Shallow

• The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.

  

  David Denby
  • War
  • Talent
  • Accountability

• The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Philosophical

• The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

  

  Eddie Jemison
  • Industry
  • Shallow
  • Hedonist

• Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Calling
  • Shallow
  • Dwarfs

• The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

  

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
  • Shallow
  • Teapots

• Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

  

  Thomas Woods
  • Water
  • Liberty
  • Economic

• Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background?

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Today
  • Exciting

• The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • May
  • Sex
  • Capacity

• Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • School
  • Running

• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Forever
  • Profound
  • Vulgar

• Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

  

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict
  • Thinking
  • Breathing
  • Shallow

• The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mother
  • Dream
  • Black

• I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

  

  Sharon Gless
  • Men
  • Women
  • Shallow

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