Being Shallow Quotes

#1. The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Dennis Miller

#3. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

Tamsin Greig

#4. When I lie down to love,
old dwarf heart shakes her head.
Like an imbecile she was born old.

Anne Sexton

#5. I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

Katharine Hepburn

#6. Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Robert H. Schuller

#7. For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted.

Neil Strauss

#8. Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it and opened the sluices of his heart, so that all the secrets there deposited run out.

Henry Fielding

#9. A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Leszek Kolakowski

#10. Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

J.K. Rowling

#11. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Nhat Hanh

#12. For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

Winona Ryder

#13. Everyone seems to know more than I do, and being on the shallow end of the information pool is starting to piss me off.

Kendare Blake

#14. My season of weakness has taught me the joy of receiving, the strength of brokenness, and the importance of looking for God in each moment. Before cancer, I would have said

Kara Tippetts

#15. It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current President ... Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been ... I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

Jack Cafferty

#16. A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

Watchman Nee

#17. It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown.
Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.
If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.

Vera Nazarian

#18. Being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.

Gillian Flynn

#19. Her breathing was shallow, a seashore slowly being covered with water.

David Levithan

#20. Being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us - including ourselves.

Arianna Huffington

#21. These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

Caroline Knapp

#22. I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

Kevin Brockmeier

#23. 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

#24. Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

Saul Bellow

#25. But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Rachel Cohn

#26. Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Thomas De Quincey

#27. Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air

Katie McGarry

#28. To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Oswald Chambers

#29. The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

Hugh Laurie

#30. If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

Feng Zhang

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

Gillian Flynn

#32. Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.

Mary Balogh

#33. Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.

Jonathan Haidt

#34. A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Kathy Acker

#35. Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.

J.K. Rowling