Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.
You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.
It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Deep down I'm a very shallow person.
The thing I don't like about L. A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.
There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person
Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well. . . Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not. " It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.