Surface Quotes
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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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Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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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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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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...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 was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat 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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I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
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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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But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.
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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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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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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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Vanity is but the surface.
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I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional 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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When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.
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I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.
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She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow of surface from the temples over the cheek is exactly like the carving of a Phidean goddess
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Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface, The core and the surface Are essentially the same, Words making them seem different . . .
