I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.
I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.
It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.
The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.
When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
