Quotes About Depth

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

When words leave off, music begins.

The echo of a platitude.

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

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

We measure success and depth by length and time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

He is more within us than we are ourselves.

A great ship asks deep water.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

I much prefer people who are very in tune with themselves, very musically inclined - no pretty boys.

Because people with autism are also strongly obsessional, meaning that they pursue their current interest to extraordinary detail and lengths and in great depth, they can develop 'tunnel vision' that prevents them from seeing the bigger picture, including the repercussions of their current actions.

He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.