Surface Quotes
Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.
when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.
Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.
I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.
Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.
Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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.
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.