Surface Quotes
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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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.
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Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.
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The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
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Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
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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.
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
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But if you look under the "girls gone wild" surface, which was easy for me to do since I was sover and actually below everyone wo formed that surface, ou could see that it was just a bunch of insecure teenagers guzzling alcohol and Kool-Aid from Dixie cups and freaking out about how "stressed out" they were about SATs and APs and rehearsals and auditions and résumé-padding efforts.
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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.
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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.
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The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
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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.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
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While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
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Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.
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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
