Surface Quotes

I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

You can't be deep without a surface

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen.

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?

A painted surface is a real, living form.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

Golden is a surface colour.

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.