Surface quotes
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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
-- Albert Hadley -
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
-- Amy Ephron -
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
-- Anne Parillaud -
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
-- Anne Parillaud -
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
-- Ansel Adams -
We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
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There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
-- Bill Viola -
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
-- Carl Sagan -
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
-- Chad Smith -
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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...
-- Charles Stross -
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
-- Claude Chabrol -
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
-- Colin Powell -
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Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.
-- Daniela Hantuchova -
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
-- Danny Boyle -
I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.
-- David Cronenberg -
Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.
-- David Lynch -
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I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
-- David Lynch -
When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
-- Dennis Wholey -
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
-- Djuna Barnes -
There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.
-- Donald E. Brownlee -
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The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care
-- Edgar Schein -
Many fires burn below the surface.
-- Empedocles -
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The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.
-- Felix Buxton -
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
-- Garry Winogrand -
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
-- Gavin Bryars -
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Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
-- Gene Cernan -
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
-- Georg Baselitz -
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
-- George Takei -
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
-- Georges Seurat -
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I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
-- Helen Frankenthaler -
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
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Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal -
It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.
-- Italo Calvino -
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
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When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free,
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
-- James Bryant Conant -
I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.
-- James Nicoll -
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However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.
-- Jennifer Garner -
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
-- John Baldessari -
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Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
-- John Singer Sargent -
You can't be deep without a surface
-- Jonathan Lethem -
In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
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A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
-- Joshua Ferris -
Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.
-- Judith Orloff -
I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.
-- Jules Olitski -
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
-- Kathy Acker -
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What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?
-- Kay WalkingStick -
A painted surface is a real, living form.
-- Kazimir Malevich -
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
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Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.
-- Lisa Scottoline -
It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.
-- Lisette Model -
I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
-- Marcia Cross -
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
-- Marguerite Duras -
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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
-- Mark Twain -
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.
-- Mary E. Pearson -
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You have to be aware that whenever you leave your house, you're probably going to be photographed by someone somewhere. Maybe those pictures will surface. Maybe they won't. Maybe those videos will surface. Maybe they won't. But you have to always be aware that it could be happening.
-- Megan Fox -
Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
-- Michael Sheen -
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
-- Milan Kundera -
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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
-- Milan Kundera -
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
-- Neil Armstrong -
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
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If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
-- Nikki Sixx -
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
-- Olivia Colman -
To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.
-- Philip Graham Ryken -
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
-- Pierre Bonnard -
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The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
-- Piet Mondrian -
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.
-- Richard Ellmann -
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust
-- Richard Greenberg -
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
-- Robert Musil -
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
-- Robert Smithson -
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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
-- Robert Smithson -
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
-- Rudolf Carnap -
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
-- Samuel Beckett -
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
-- Sanford I. Weill -
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Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
-- Steffi Graf -
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
-- Stephen Sondheim -
I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.
-- Susane Colasanti -
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
-- Tillie Olsen -
