Quotes About Depth

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

I can stitch a song together in about an hour anytime you want, but it won't have the depth.

If you are the kind of person who makes homemade chicken stock on the regular and keeps it frozen in various sized containers for all your cooking needs, I truly commend you. Quality homemade stock will invariably add great depth of flavor and body to a recipe. But it's a luxury, not a necessity - it gilds the lily, as they say.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.

Football never stops, and that's why you need a big squad.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.