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Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Oscar Wilde

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I believe one of the secrets of effective ministry is keep it simple-be simple... Simple does not mean shallow and simple doesn't mean simplistic, and simple doesn't mean superficial. It just means understandable.

Frederick Warren

Tsunamis are only a foot or two in height because they are so long. They only get huge when they hit shallow water and begin to back-up on themselves.

Bill Teague

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau

The thing I like about these kinds of boats is that you can get them in extremely shallow water, which is a big plus when you're going out to the islands around here. And the maneuverability is a big plus. It handles like a big Jet Ski. I've lived in Florida since I was 3 and owned a lot of boats, but this is one of the best to have in this part of Florida.

Scott Ellis

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Dennis Miller

This kind of shallow stream system seems to be the place where many features of land-living animals first arose.

Ted Daeschler

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Some of the bees have long beaks, and some of them have short beaks. Some flowers are deep; some are shallow.

Carolyn Lidge

Sultana was a little shallow on the bench, so we felt we could keep running.

Matt Denny

It's no doubt as shallow and disingenuous as Katz's numerous failed political campaigns. Local 98 simply held him accountable for his double-speak, and he's hated us ever since.

Frank Keel

We saw some support at 120.70 yen, with the higher dollar/yen trend still in place and any kind of pullback should be relatively shallow.

Nick Bennenbroek

It was absolutely a great year. With the shallow bench, with just one senior and six freshmen on the bench ? it was a tremendous year. To do what we did in those three games were enormous. It was a great year.

Lori Daniel

There have been discussions about the Big Ten being down, and my reaction was, ?I don't think we're down,? ... I don't think we have a Kentucky or an Arizona in our league. But I'd rather have quality depth than shallow depth in one or two good teams. And I think that's what we have.

Jim Delany

We need to educate boaters in waters that are shallow to watch for the signs. There are very few navigational aids in areas like that.

David Ray

Any corrective phase that will come in the near term could be a shallow one.

Joe Ismail

We're doing pretty good as far as how shallow we are.

Kyle Deines

When you see people happy and content with so little after they've lost so much, who can still find meaning and purpose, it makes our lives seem shallow sometimes. The children especially were always smiling. It was heartwarming to see; it gives you a whole new perspective.

Karen Kayser

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's sort of like that movie, 'Shallow Hal,' where the guy falls in love because of what he sees inside her, not what she looks like. Chad just saw himself differently from how we saw him.

Patrick Peterson

Unless you are willing to change that Supreme Court and make it a pro-life constitutionalist court, your position is fraudulent and it is hollow and it is shallow.

Pat Buchanan

The body was found near the side of the house buried in a shallow grave. Apparently, a neighbor's dog or some other animal had dug it up, and that's when a neighbor found it.

Terriann Carlson

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Barbara Walters

[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Robert H. Bork

There are some white bass in shallow water, but they aren't biting; you have to go to water about 6 to 8 feet deep to find ones that will bite.

Bryce Cadion

It seems pretty shallow, the reasons we've been given.

Steve Pugliese

We're a little shallow. Me and Ben are basically the only starting pitchers we have so far.

Dan Carleton

Something's driving this train, and I think there is a growing consensus that at least fresh gases have reached older magma that is shallow in the volcano, activating it.

Bill Steele

A whale in the shallow water of the River Thames is like a human lost in the heat of the Sahara desert.

Laila Sadler

Consumer spending, which [has] kept the economy afloat, should decline in the third quarter and lead us into a formal, albeit shallow, recession.

Bruce Steinberg

A zero-depth entry point would be something to make the pool more accessible to handicapped people. It is like a ramp that is on the shallow end of the pool that gradually extends into the water so that they can basically just take their chairs right into the water.

Jennifer Clarke

A guy who can get in the right area on the north end of Kissimmee, and fish up shallow with a Horny Toad, and have a bait to pitch behind it when they miss it, like a Senko, will probably win it.

Bobby Lane

There's already a lot of stimulus in the pipeline, and there's more to come. So there appears to be an ever-growing amount of fiscal stimulus, which means any recession will be fairly shallow.

Wayne Ayers

We're on the shallow end of the pool. We're going to be out of clean water before we know it, especially if they increase their withdrawals as they've planned.

Richard Cyr

It's just the shallow-water parts of the Gulf of Mexico. They have become less and less competitive for continued investment in our global portfolio, and we will continue to operate in the deep water.

Wendy Silcock

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.

Bulgarian Proverb

I was told he was stabbed a number of times through the chest and then his body was wrapped in a carpet and dumped in a shallow grave and back-filled and left to rot and rot.

Brian Roberts

'The positive things are very shallow; the positive things would be things like: Getting any restaurant reservation you like! Getting to the front of the line! Being given free things! So what? The traveling is monstrous because you get bothered all the time. The hell of going on holiday when you're famous! You can't go anywhere! It's just no fun!

Liz Hurley

It was the dream vacation up to that point. Right before sunset he (Larry) was tossed over a wave and came down where it's a little more shallow that you'd expect.

Stuart Faris

That kind of a no-doubt-about-it pond with minimal shallow excavation could be a goldmine of microfossil material! I'd want to sample its beautiful rims ... and do a small core down through the middle somewhere.

Penelope Boston

The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.

Wilford O. Cross

President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.

Gene Sperling

I had a great day. I was up shallow in clear water fishing for cruising bass. I saw every fish I caught.

Koby Kreiger

That's what is piling up that water. All of this flow is building up because it's being caught by something - shallow water or the levees.

Joannes Westerink

The pool at Clarion is shallow and kind of slow. I felt pretty good; I was happy with my times overall.

Jordy Troyan

We played a very sloppy fourth quarter. We didn't have a good offensive plan and it is very difficult to get shots off in the shallow end of the pool because the defense has a huge advantage being able to stand.

Mike Goldstein

I dare you, boys and girls, to make life obey you, not you it. It is only a shallow dare to do the foolish things. I dare you to do the uplifting, courageous things.

William Danforth

Navigational pools aren't their preferred habitat. As their name implies, they prefer riffles and shallow water.

Tom Proch

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Hayao Miyazaki

Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated nitrate levels were found in shallow wells and not in deep wells.

Laura Alvey

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

At the risk of sounding incredibly shallow, if you have women in a game, the men will come. A lot of the stuff that they're doing is directly targeting women.

Brenda Brathwaite

Roots are acting like conduits for water connecting deep ground or soil water reserves to the shallow soil water.

Todd Dawson

All three lakes are shallow, even in good years. So raising the level even two or three feet makes a substantial difference. This project would also increase the lake levels earlier in the year, which would be better for recreational interests.

Marc Spratt

My little grandson just loves that little shallow area there.

Councilman Frank Lopez

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

Christopher Reeve

This cold weather we've had the last few days didn't help. Being as shallow as it is, the bass here are very susceptible to cold fronts.

Charlie Youngers

Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future.

Madame Marie Du Deffand

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

They were playing us shallow, and we got it over them a few times and found some gaps.

Rich Bishop

The show has always been about the shallow moment-by-moment existence of life in the business. But we keep discovering subtleties, like, in Hollywood, even a guy who makes $5 million is constantly insecure and struggling.

Doug Ellin

They're not over. For a shallow-depth earthquake like this they go on, sometimes for a year.

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