#shallow

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#shallow #wit #humor

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#shallow #since #stupid

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