Surface Quotes
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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.
Charles Dickens
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Stuart Davis.. ..is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. ..two-dimensional surface plane.
Arshile Gorky
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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.
Miranda Raison
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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.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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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.
Ellen Meloy
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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.
Johannes Stark
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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.
Michael Sheen
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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.
Vivian Campbell
Def Leppard
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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.
David Cobley
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Willa Cather
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
Steven T. Katz
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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.
Richard Feynman