“Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.” — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“The arrow increased without motion, then in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She reached to give him an awkward hug, and when he hugged her back, his hand accidentally touched her belly. It was… — Victoria Dahl Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Rastignac had no Skin. He was, nevertheless, happier than he had been since the age of five. He was as happy as… — Philip José Farmer Copy Share Image
“can still hear the contempt in her voice. At times everyone wonders how deeply buried contempt is beneath the surface of their… — Adrian Barnes Copy Share Image
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
“Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would vanish if you had… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible,… — Gustav Kafka Copy Share Image
“Merrill Meewee knew his stones. As a boy in Kenya, skipping stones was his favorite free-time activity. There had been an abundance… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it disappeared beneath the surface,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city — beneath the surface like… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The Bible admonishes us to live each day fully—not living in the past or the future. But God never intends for us… — Charles F. Stanley Copy Share Image
I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface. — Allan Moyle Copy Share Image
“Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
