Quotes About Depth

I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna bring more depth to our shows if we can and do something empowering.

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

I thought Mia Hansen-Love was a true auteur, and I always wanted to work with her. Mia's empathy for her characters and her ability to use the language of cinema to communicate real human depth is extraordinary. She's a humanist.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

Because I grew up on 'Star Wars', that was the best example of creating a full and rich world to me as a writer. When I was watching those movies as a kid, I wanted to know more about every damn character in that universe. There was always a hint that there was a story there that you just weren't getting to see.

Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is not really about a space opera, action, and the galactic quest. It's about self-doubt.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

It was astonishing how much meaning could be crammed into a single word. How did such words not crumble under their own weight?

world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods,

So she tasted of his soul and drank from the well he offered.

Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.

Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.

The cause of whose tears... could not be found in the traces on her cheeks. ...even as he knew the source of her tears was endless. bottomless and endless and not to be found in their traces. p.194

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292

She loved deeply, far more deeply than many a one who could fearlessly proclaim himself a lover. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love.

Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Love is...when you fall for the person inside the person...and keep falling

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.