Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface…

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

— Tom Irwin

Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel,…

— Matthew Arnold

Many fires burn below the surface.

— Empedocles

The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more…

— Jon Bowermaster

Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize…

— Frederick Lenz

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction…

— Margaret Halsey

Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on…

— Marilynne Robinson

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her…

— Michael Ondaatje

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A…

— Richard Avedon

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

— Roald Dahl

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was…

— Kevin E. Trenberth

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest…

— Bertrand Russell

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to…

— Carl Jung

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