A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil

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

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

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
Steven Cojocaru

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
Peter Farrelly

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

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

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.
Sharon Gless

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell

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

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
Neil Cavuto

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche