Surface Quotes

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.