Shallow Quotations

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

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.

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

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

It would be nice if we didn't have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators.

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

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.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

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

The only two people in the park that knew the ball was as shallow as it was, was myself and the runner on third. I have to anticipate they'll make that play.

When I decided to give boxing all my focus, this is the reason I did it. I'm more ready for this than anything I've done in my life. Anybody can spend their entire career in the shallow end of the pool but I decided I want to get in the deep end.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.

Losing Kapanen for at least two months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

Losing Kapanen for at least 2 months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

My little grandson just loves that little shallow area there.

One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their parents died of AIDS. She tries to persuade them to take food from her hands...and then, as she goes walking into the bush, she sees these shallow graves where children bury children. She takes them back to her home to give them a proper burial...These are AIDS orphans, children raising children with no values, no direction. What will become of them?

Moose are not well-suited for warm weather. They get heat-stressed relatively easy. They can use shallow ponds to cool off. Wisconsin may be too warm for moose and may lack an abundance of those shallow ponds.

My God sits in the back of the limosine. My God comes in a wrapper of cellophane. My God pouts on the cover of the magazine. My God's a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene.

need to know above all that, if you take the stewardship of the high court, you will not steer it so far out of the mainstream that it founders in the shallow waters of extremist ideology.

Nigel looked at her with sparkling eyes. The soul which shone through her dark face had transformed it for the moment into a beauty, more lofty and more rare than that of her shallow sister. He bowed before the majesty of the woman, and pressed his lips to her hand.

Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated nitrate levels were found in shallow wells and not in deep wells.

I dare you, boys and girls, to make life obey you, not you it. It is only a shallow dare to do the foolish things. I dare you to do the uplifting, courageous things.

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.

I had two guys out Tuesday and we caught four trout and a couple of reds. It's just not happening right now. Some of the top trout areas are too shallow to get in with a boat. I've been hitting the birds on the upper end of the lake. There are lots of birds, but they aren't marking too many trout. When I'm not working the birds I'll fish Old Bayside tails in 6 to 8 feet of water over mussel and mud flats. Traps in chrome and a blue back have been best under the birds.

Francoeur turned the game around with that catch. He was playing fairly shallow and to make that type of catch running the way he wasthat turned the ball game around.

I don't think we're in bad shape. I think we're in a recession. I think we're in very good shape to weather this recession and make it a short, shallow one.

There is an extensive sand plain extending as far as the eye can see in the vicinity of the drop location. The slope is very shallow and essentially appears flat when you're down there. While the bottom is sand, showing ripples from long shore currents, it is by no means devoid of life. On the contrary, it appeared to be a very productive sand community undoubtedly with lots of mollusks and crustaceans.

UNDER MY SURFACE IS MORE SURFACE, BUT I AM VERY GOOD AT SHALLOW RELATIONSHIPS.

I wouldn't be surprised as we move uphill that we find a section of the rock, in fact, that was modified in a shallow open-water environment. We haven't found the smoking-gun evidence for that yet.

It can dive to 3,000 meters and stay submerged for an hour. It will only come into such shallow waters if it is ill. But in doing so it is committing suicide.

Real shallow breaths in the ninth. But at least I was still breathing.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Our Orchestra must also continue to play its leadership role in the community and in our nation. The young look to us to provide substance in place of dross, emotional depth in place of shallow titillation.

I was told he was stabbed a number of times through the chest and then his body was wrapped in a carpet and dumped in a shallow grave and back-filled and left to rot and rot,

It does get wearisome to hear the prophets of doom say we're on the way out, because it's just not true. It's shallow thinking.

Malcolm in the Middle ... I always knew I would need this done because shallow hips run in the family. It was painful and took months to get back on my feet. I dread doing the other hip.

When you see people happy and content with so little after they've lost so much, who can still find meaning and purpose, it makes our lives seem shallow sometimes. The children especially were always smiling. It was heartwarming to see; it gives you a whole new perspective.

We're doing pretty good as far as how shallow we are.

The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

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

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

We need to educate boaters in waters that are shallow to watch for the signs. There are very few navigational aids in areas like that.

Tsunamis are only a foot or two in height because they are so long. They only get huge when they hit shallow water and begin to back-up on themselves.

The recovery of 2002 looks poised to mirror the recovery of a decade ago, with a moderate economic and earnings recovery following a short and shallow recession.

This was an inhabitable environment on Mars. This was a shallow sea. These rocks ... it's a salt flat. These are the kinds of environments that are very suitable for life.

We felt that he has been a really good goal scorer in the National Hockey League, has good speed and is a skilled hockey player. Losing Kapanen for at least two months leaves us shallow at forward, so we thought that getting a player like Savage would really help our team.

Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it

There have been discussions about the Big Ten being down, and my reaction was, ?I don't think we're down,? ... I don't think we have a Kentucky or an Arizona in our league. But I'd rather have quality depth than shallow depth in one or two good teams. And I think that's what we have.

Better to dig one deep well than 10 shallow ones.

Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

It was absolutely a great year. With the shallow bench, with just one senior and six freshmen on the bench ? it was a tremendous year. To do what we did in those three games were enormous. It was a great year.

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

The thing I like about these kinds of boats is that you can get them in extremely shallow water, which is a big plus when you're going out to the islands around here. And the maneuverability is a big plus. It handles like a big Jet Ski. I've lived in Florida since I was 3 and owned a lot of boats, but this is one of the best to have in this part of Florida.

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.

Roots are acting like conduits for water connecting deep ground or soil water reserves to the shallow soil water.

Something's driving this train, and I think there is a growing consensus that at least fresh gases have reached older magma that is shallow in the volcano, activating it.

Any corrective phase that will come in the near term could be a shallow one.

A whale in the shallow water of the River Thames is like a human lost in the heat of the Sahara desert.

A zero-depth entry point would be something to make the pool more accessible to handicapped people. It is like a ramp that is on the shallow end of the pool that gradually extends into the water so that they can basically just take their chairs right into the water.

You need breaks sometimes - we haven't been getting many. I didn't think I would get it. I was upset because I was too shallow on that leadoff single and lost it. I was glad to have the opportunity to make up for it.

This demonstrates the biological effect in an area so shallow that it doesn't take much to fundamentally change the system. It's a little sobering.

This cold weather we've had the last few days didn't help. Being as shallow as it is, the bass here are very susceptible to cold fronts.

They don't have the root system to pull them through. Trees and shrubs and older plants can push out new growth after the primary growth has been killed off, but shallow rooted plants can't.

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be where many features of land-living animals first arose. The species shows that evolution from life in water to life on land happened gradually in fish in shallow water.

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be the place where many features of land-living animals first arose.

It was the dream vacation up to that point. Right before sunset he (Larry) was tossed over a wave and came down where it's a little more shallow that you'd expect.

It's tough to throw somebody into the deep end and tell them to start swimming. I prefer to start out in the shallow end. Now, some kids pick it up pretty quick.