Quotes About Depth

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.

When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

What I also love about Lorrie Moore stories is they take me a long time to read. They're not easy for me because each sentence, I feel like, is so rich and dense, it just sends me off in a thousand directions.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav

If one does not love too much, one does not love enough

Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.

Her eyes, dark brown and experienced, carried a little luggage underneath.

Perhaps baptism really ought to have some health warnings attached to it: 'If you take this step, if you go into these depths, it will be transfiguring, exhilarating, life-giving and very, very dangerous.' To be baptized into Jesus is not to be in what the world thinks of as a safe place. Jesus' first disciples discovered that in the Gospels, and his disciples have gone on discovering it ever since.

Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures.

Cuando el hombre ama de veras, su pasión lo penetra todo y es capaz de traspasar la tierra.