Surface Quotes
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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Because we import more than we export, we may get some unusually good-looking data on the surface.
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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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Filming 'Doctor Who' is so incredibly different to 'Spooks.' Near to the surface, there's quite a silly atmosphere. A lot of the times, you're on the verge of giggles because it's so over the top.
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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.
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There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
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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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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
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Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.
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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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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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There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.
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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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While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
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Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
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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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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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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 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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The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon 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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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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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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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
