Quotes About Depth

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less than a layperson about many scientific topics—like bear behavior.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

The human heart is an abyss that is impossible to predict; the most piercing looks cannot gauge it.'41

Everyone loves a good iceberg, and this one is a corker." professor of Earth Observation at the University of Leeds

I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what if you had a chance to see a different layer, like flipping a channel or something? Would you want to look? Even if what you saw looked like hell? Or worse?

I lose a great deal of my charm when one gets to know me better.

That's the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.

How funny it is that one of the fundamental definitions of being "modern" is the ability to avoid physical labor, when it might be that very thing that could provide us with such depth of connection to ourselves and to the world.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me

Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.

Only what is within you is near; all else is far. And this within: so packed and pressured, barely contained, unsayable.

For they themselves were still beautiful, designed for a more beautiful life than the one in which they found themselves becalmed. She saw that they were more stoical, had more depth, than she had ever perceived.

Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.

He was a pleaser, Robbie. Weak. He liked mixing it with the bad lads, but sometimes he got in out of his depth.

People were always more complex than she realized and she was always too quick to jump to conclusions.

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey?

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.