Hidden Depth Quotes

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

I am not as simple as I look.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

Waka is really intelligent. A lot of people don't know that because he just gets people hyped up, but he's a dynamic individual, and once you get to know him, you get to see a lot of that.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

Gonjasufi may sound at first like a rambling hip-hop crackpot, but there's more to the California rapper and singer than mere eccentricity: What appears messy and thrown together is anything but.

'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.

I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.