...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent…

“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?” “Yes.” “Is…

— Renee Ahdieh

We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.

— Black Thought

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

— Bryan Davis

“The burning glow of fire basked him in a warm light. I feared to look at him, to study him again after the train,…

— Rae Z. Ryans

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

— Christophe Agou

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject…

— Scott Turow

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

— Stephen Sondheim

“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's…

— Mark Leyner

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and…

— Marianne Wiggins

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

— Meredith Hall

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the Earth. But man has only to sink beneath…

— Jaques Barzun Cousteau

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

— Peace Pilgrim

It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into…

— Mehmet Oz

“But not all its avenues were paved with marble nor all its denizens dwellers in palaces. Men and women of a dozen races huddled…

— Dave Duncan