Quotes About Depth

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

At a depth of two miles, sandwiched between a number of other strata, was a formation called the Bakken, named for a local farmer, and just below it the Three Forks.

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could not drown in a thing that shallow.

looking at Spade with cobalt-blue eyes that were both shy and probing.

Il significato della sua vita era un'inafferrabile vena d'acqua centinaia di metri sotto la superficie, e periodicamente lui calava un secchio nel pozzo, lo riempiva, lo tirava su e beveva. Ma questo non lo sosteneva molto a lungo.

A secret between two friends, Mae, is an ocean. It's wide and deep and we lose ourselves in it.

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.

Look at the earth and you think it's solid, he said. But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth.

stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable just like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths just like the sea.

Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?

stroke he imagined plunging

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere.

if you can bring her depth when she is superficial

His eyes were holes in the world.

Al parecer, hay personas profundamente temerosas de sus propias emociones, en especial de las dolorosas. Penas profundas, arrepentimientos, tristezas. En especial la tristeza, tal vez. Como si algo que se siente de verdad y por completo no tuviera fin ni fondo. Algo que podría volverse infinito y atraparlos.

The inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day.