Surface Quotes
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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the 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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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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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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You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
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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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I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.
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And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep.
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I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
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Stuart Davis.. ..is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. ..two-dimensional surface plane.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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I'm sure it appeared on the surface that I jumped from band to band for the sake of my career, but that's never been my intent. My whole desire in my career was to be in one band.
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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.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.
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I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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During winter sunsets, standing on a promontory so I saw the scenic sea as a surface rather than a line and, as coal-boats appeared from all sides of the horizon, I thought that, as they opened their portholes, they would throw their coals onto this fire. They swarmed over the ocean like blowflies ready to devour the decomposed star, and the blank gesture of a cloud fanned them.
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As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
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Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen.
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.
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But we're talking ice a millimeter thick just adhering to the outer surface of the wing. A big chunk of clear ice. I've never heard of anything like that.
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But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.
