Surface Quotes
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
Walker Evans -
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It can happen to anyone, people judge you too quickly rather than actually bothering to find out what’s below the surface.
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane -
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Garry Winogrand -
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
H. W. L. Poonja -
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
Terence McKenna -
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.
Sharleen Spiteri Texas -
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Gerard K. O'Neill
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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
Lao Tzu -
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
Georges Seurat -
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
Quentin Crisp -
Many fires burn below the surface.
Empedocles -
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.
Derek Jarman -
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.
William Cecil Dampier -
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.
Andy Gilbert -
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.
Samuel Morse -
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
Virginia Woolf -
I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.
Jennifer Garner
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Because we import more than we export, we may get some unusually good-looking data on the surface.
Brian Jones The Rolling Stones -
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
Amelia B. Edwards -
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.
Hippolyte Taine -
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
Virginia Woolf