Surface Quotes

• Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

  

  Cathy Davidson
  • Looks
  • Familiar
  • Inches

• And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Roots
  • Rooms
  • Surface

• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Enough

• History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

  

  Eric Holder
  • History
  • Communities
  • Surface

• If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Politics
  • Surface

• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Passion
  • Secret
  • Poison

• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Desert
  • Surface
  • Island

• It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Patience
  • Changes
  • Surface

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