Surface Quotes

• 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.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Feeling
  • Terror
  • Absent

• You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

  

  James Stewart
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Surface

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Fail
  • Forgive
  • Silently

• 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.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Different
  • Atmosphere
  • Filming

• Stuart Davis.. ..is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. ..two-dimensional surface plane.

  

  Arshile Gorky
  • Canvas
  • Surface
  • Two-Dimensional

• ...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Light
  • Silent
  • Shining

• For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

  

  Wanda Koop
  • Interesting
  • Surface
  • Conventions

• 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.

  

  Johannes Stark
  • Elements
  • Surface
  • Atomic

• 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

  

  Walter Deverell
  • Lovely
  • Delicate
  • Temples

• I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Water
  • Swimming
  • Felt

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Looks
  • Miracle

• 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.

  

  Kathy Young
  • Long
  • Jump
  • Happen

• 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.

  

  David Cobley
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kind
  • Results
  • Glasses

• 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.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Desire
  • Band
  • Surface

• 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.

  

  David Kassan
  • Goal
  • Street
  • Subject

• I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

  

  Allan Moyle
  • Things
  • Interested
  • Surface

• 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.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Successful
  • Turns
  • Remembered

• 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.

  

  Rumi
  • Myself
  • Boat
  • Stay

• People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Pain
  • Surface

• 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.

  

  Bob Schneider
  • Ice
  • Chunk
  • Millimeter

• There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

  

  Michelle Ryan
  • Havens
  • Surface
  • Scratches

• I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

  

  Rick Reilly
  • Terrible
  • Surface
  • Addict

• 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.

  

  Euan Uglow
  • Interested
  • Paintings
  • Vibrancy

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