Quotes About Depth

Cohen was so shallow it was almost a talent.

In all those women there is not one to match you. They have known my flesh. You have known my heart, and stolen my soul.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

The less I'm in a hurry, the quicker the results seem to happen. With patience, the quality of my experience has a depth that can't be measured bon the clock, but by the timelessness of my experience.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Scratch the thin veneer of what man called culture or civilization and in most cases you would find a barbarian waiting to be set free.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.

What was great about 'Cold Feet' is that although it flew off down all different avenues, it was really based on believing the reality of the characters.

For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

You have to dig deep to make great music, and it gets harder and harder. It's a difficult, painful process to reach deep in there and pull out the real gems. And you have to have that little bit of anxiety of, 'Can I really do this? Am I good enough?' You need that in the recipe to really get down in there.

I try to play whole, recognizable human beings.

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

What is special about 'Hannah' is she's complex. She takes risks and she's smart, and she has a lot of love for people.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.