#shallow

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#breaths #deep #helpful #parties #shallow

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#refuge #seriousness #shallow

Only the shallow know themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #shallow #themselves

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#awful #everybody #famous #game #get

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

— Rex Stout

#because #depth #grew #had #hemingway

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#body #books #bringing #country #enriching

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

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #bottom #considered #deep #discover