Surface Quotes
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You should change your tennis depending on the surface. For me, the most difficult thing on grass is how to move, like sliding to get a ball.
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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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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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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
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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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Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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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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Vanity is but 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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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.
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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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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 . . .
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I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.
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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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The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
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When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential.
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The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
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You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.
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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've noticed that there are so many times when things seem negative on the surface, but when you look back with a far enough lens and enough time between you and that event, it usually works out for the best in terms of where you need to go in your life and who you need to become as a person. If you view life like that, it really turns out to be that way.
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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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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
