Surface Quotes

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we’ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.