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Quotes About Deep

Where shadows dim with shadows mate, in caverns deep and dark. Where old books dream of bygone days, when they were wood and bark...
~ Walter Moers
Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
People who experience flow describe it as "a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems," and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an "optimal experience.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced six-cent-mihaly) has done more than anyone else to study this state of effortless attending, and the name he proposed for it, flow, has become part of the language. People who experience flow describe it as "a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems
~ Daniel Kahneman
economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Ree needed often to inject herself with pleasant sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised inside her spirit, poke the soothing sounds past that racket and down deep where her jittering soul paced on a stone slab in a gray room, agitated and endlessly provoked but yearning to hear something that might bring a moment's rest.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Dumb and bold things are best accomplished drunk, we figured, so we went deep into the popskull.
~ Daniel Woodrell
You are like a cross between Eminem and the Dalai Lama. You can be really nerdy, and all deep and shit, but you are also raw as hell. Eminem without the bitterness. A Dalai Lama you can get drunk with." Part
~ DANIELE BOLELLI
Anna woke with the wonderful feeling bad sleepers have when they know they have slept well. As if they have stolen something and got away with it. At these times the memories of what led up to such deep sleep keep their distance for a few seconds and those few seconds are perhaps the only time the world can ever be said to show mercy.
~ James Meek
The assumption guiding our struggle against nature is that deep within itself nature contains a structure, an order, that is ultimately intelligible to the human understanding
~ James P. Carse
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
~ James Ramsey Ullman
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
~ James Rollins
And deep within him, missing its accustomed tread, his heart paused, and gave one single stroke, as if on an anvil.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Later, learning to know him, a friendship had grown: odd, irregular; at times surprisingly deep. And at times marred, it seemed wantonly, by Lymond's excesses and his own lack of trust towards Richard which again and again had caused his older brother anger and misery.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
~ Dorothy West
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.
~ Douglas Adams
Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
This bowl was brought to you by the Campaign to Save the Humans. We bid you farewell." And then the sound of long, heavy, perfectly gray bodies rolling away into an unknown fathomless deep, quietly giggling.
~ Douglas Adams
The Answer to the Great Question . . ." "Yes . . . !" "Of Life, the Universe and Everything . . ." said Deep Thought. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." said Deep Thought, and paused. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." "Yes . . . !!! . . . ?" "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
Cuarenta y dos –dijo Pensamiento Profundo, con calma y majestad infinitas.
~ Douglas Adams
All right' said Deep Thought. 'The Answer to the Great Question . . .' 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' said Deep Thought, and paused. 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' 'Yes . . . !!! . . . ?' 'Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
He took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.
~ Douglas Adams
In my aircar," said the old man, motioning Arthur to get into the craft which had settled silently next to them. "We are going deep into the bowels of the planet where even now our race is being revived from its five-million-year slumber.
~ Douglas Adams