Surface Quotes
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?
It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
The people who really love and care about you will always surface in time and stay in your life. Always
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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.
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
