Delved Deeper Quotes

#1. 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

Jason Reitman

#2. Fifty percent of life is ninety percent indecisive. The rest is confusing.

Brian Spellman

#3. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".

Tony Leon

#4. You know something? I kind of like eating in restaurants alone. There is such opportunity for observation then. When you're with someone else, you don't recognize things the same way.

Charlotte Silver

#5. Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.

Shirley Jackson

#6. One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

David Lloyd George

#7. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

David Levithan

#8. You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.

Cassandra Clare

#9. What the hell's wrong with this house?" I asked it. "Locked rooms, and now rooms without doors at all?" I made to turn

Darcy Coates

#10. I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life ... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#11. If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Henry Hampton

#12. The secret to happiness is to be absorbed in something other than yourself.

Marty Rubin

#13. Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

Ira Glass