Surface Quotes

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

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.

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

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.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

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 .

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.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .