Eric Garcia (1972) An amazing author who has written several wonderful books!
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 15 (p. 248)
“I was too near it then to see how shallow it all was...”
Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
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“Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.”
Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States
"What I Am"; the earliest references to this clearly indicate "choke" is the word used in the song; since then "chuck me" and "shove me" have sometimes appeared in internet renditions of the lyrics.
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
“Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet
No. 183
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack (1743)
Poor Richard's Almanack
“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
William Laud (1573–1645) Archbishop of Canterbury
Source: A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume II: Conference with Fisher (1849), p. 272
