Deeper Quotes
1478 quotes by 1054 authors
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The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The deeper the pit,…
— Jim Norton
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For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.…
— Gary Snyder
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The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.…
— Joseph Conrad
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
— Orison S. Marden
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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested…
— Annie Lennox
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
— Dante Alighieri
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There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.…
— Richard Avedon
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Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Some things you can shake off, some things dig deeper than soccer.
— Landon Donovan
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Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to…
— Johannes Itten
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a…
— Don DeLillo
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Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
— Jefferson Davis
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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given…
— Alan Dean Foster
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I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore…
— Linus Pauling
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His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no…
— Unknown Author
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