Shallow Quotes - Page 14

• There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Calling, Said

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

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• His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Jest, Wit

  "King Henry V".

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• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Fear, Mermaid

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• The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

  Susanna Clarke

  Kings, Rain, Wind

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• I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Black, Veins, Earth

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.142, Carcanet

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• You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

  Tamora Pierce

  Smart, Stupid, Shallow Person

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.118, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with a noice like a wet kiss, and vanished instantly. With that instinct which prompts one, when depressed, to wallow in every circumstance of gloom, Peter leaned sadly against the hurdles and abandoned himself to a variety of shallow considerations upon (1) The vanity of human wishes; (2) Mutability; (3) First love; (4) The decay of idealism; (5) The aftermath of the Great war; (6) Birth-control; and (7) The fallacy of free-will.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  War, Kissing, First Love

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• I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, People, Meals

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.19

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• The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

  Dean Koontz

  Depressing, Clever, Smart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.552, Bantam

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• Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

  Greg Proops

  Stars, Taken, Glasses

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  Hank Azaria

  Men, Years, Weight

  "One-Man Show". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• ...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Girl, Dad, Sunset

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• Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

  Che Guevara

  Heart, Looks, Matter

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• Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Thinking, Self, Evil

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.

  Declan Lynch

  Beautiful, Book, Party

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• Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

  Pete Townshend

  Dancing, Perception, Raisins

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• I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

  Ewan McGregor

  Done, Remember, Graves

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

  Jewel

  Sad, Fall, Bad Day

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• It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

  Walt Disney

  Success, Heart, Greatness

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• Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.

  Vera Nazarian

  Focus, Needs, Ankles

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• I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.

  Alan Tudyk

  Couple, Vacation, Views

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Real, People, Fiction

  Source: collider.com

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• The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Gentleman, Age, World

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

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• It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

  Jeremy Hardy

  Mean, People, Village

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.

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