La'Porsha Renae Quotes

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

There's a lot of heart to Bob's work that doesn't always get recognized because of all of the sensuality, dark statements and wit of his work.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

Sometimes people say things and don't really know what they mean by what they're saying. Subconsciously, it might mean something different.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.