Surface Quotes
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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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My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the 'Kante-facts.' It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover 30 per cent of the surface of the earth.
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We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.
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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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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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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 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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Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
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You get the family together that hasn't been together and there's drinking. Tempers can flair and old issues can come to the surface - old grievances, old axes-to-grind.
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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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There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
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There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
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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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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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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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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
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While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
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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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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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If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
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Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.
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If you look at the things only on the surface, you’ll probably always draw more negative. But if you look a little deeper, you’ll find the positivity.
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One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.
