#deep

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.137) ↗

— Stephen Clarke

#bed #cannonball #cartoon #cartwheel #ceiling

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#believe #black #could #deep #each

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#because #curious #deeper #i #interested

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. ↗

— Alan Moore

#imagination

The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination. ↗

— Garak

#imagination

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#guidance #inspirational #intriguing #imagination

You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#inspirational #mystic #inspirational

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic. ↗

— Alex Payne

#intellectual-rigor #intelligence #intelligence