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Quotes About Depth

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?
~ Steven Wright
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
~ Steven Wright
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
~ T.S. Eliot
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
~ Roald Dahl
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.
~ Robert Sikoryak
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!
~ Nancy Atherton
Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
The bassist -- always the bassist.
~ Rob Sheffield
Deep down, he's shallow.
~ Peter De Vries
My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)
~ D.J. MacHale
You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
~ Yoko Ono
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.
~ Kevin Clash
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.
~ Leonard Bishop
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Look beyond what you see.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.
~ Carl Jung
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
~ Owen Wilson
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche