Quotes About Depth

Piping a simple song for thinking hearts, is all very well. But it will not do to say, or to suggest, or to allow it to be inferred, that doing this makes a man as great a poet.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Quoique bien jeune, j'ai trop connu ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler la vie pour n'avoir pas trouvé au fond de cette mer le mépris de ce qu'on aperçoit à sa surface. ( RAZETTA )

Mer profonde, heureusement il t'est facile d'éteindre une étincelle. ( RAZETTA )

Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.

Ah! Frappe-toi le coeur, c'est là qu'est le génie".

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I'm a water baby to no end.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

I think in those moments of being in that deep water, it's have you been in that deep water?

As I've grown as a creator, I feel that I want to tread in deeper waters and have a lot more going on emotionally with the characters. That's my appreciation for comics as a creator and a consumer as well. I'm more into stories that don't just bounce off the surface but go a little bit deeper.

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?