Quotes About Depth

You understand too little of what you see. You see a pretty face and hear a loving voice. But she is more than that, Silas. Much more. She is cold water and lack of breath. She is emptiness and oblivion. She is the very tide, drawing things to her and pulling them below.

The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.

music can reach those places where words alone can't go.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

Det er som om selve ankeret mitt ligger begravet i kulpene der ute – og det holder meg fast. Det er som om selve styrken, skaperkraften, hjertet mitt og brillene jeg ser ut på verden med har sitt utspring i elvas dyp.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

When working in the archive you will often find yourself thinking of this exploration as a dive, a submersion, perhaps even a drowning … you feel immersed in something vast, oceanic.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

I feel more comfortable with fast players because I try to control the depth. For my qualities, it's what I prefer.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

Look, you can never have enough quarterbacks.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world gets quicker, and shallower, and bite-sized, retaining our ability to take a deep dive into history is more and more important.

I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I love how deceptively simple 'love interest' is, you know? Because it encompasses quite a lot, when you think about it.