Depth Quotes - Page 30

Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.

The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.