“Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.” — Bruce Brander 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 book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
We're not building a nuclear reactor here. We're not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in… — Gord Downie 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
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
“It's all so new, so foreign, so much like that period of childhood -first or second grade, maybe- when you're old enough… — Kevin Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach's heartbeat throbbing between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?” He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, the source of my shittiness is the fact that I’m shitty. I just am. It is not possible for me to… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The first forests about which anything is known were made up of the simplest kinds of plants, all of them spore-produced -… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
“In their new personal development the girl and the woman will only be for a short time imitations of the good and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Such indirection and ambivalence typify the politics of Wong's work. He's not in any conventional sense an ideological filmmaker. "It's never been… — Wong Kar Wai, John Powers Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But,… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?”… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
Accept me for who I am and not what you see. Take time to understand the peices of me. What you see… — Mjane Copy Share Image
“I have decided that I am in love, but love is a painful hotspot roil beneath the surface of me in a… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“I studied her carefully. She was strong, this one. Strong willed. Strong minded. Still, she was not an indígena. I was not… — Leigh MacCallum Copy Share Image
“she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“Earl spun but was not at all prepared for what he saw; something lumpy, black like the water, slid back beneath the… — Sean J. Quirk Copy Share Image
“But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs… — Kofi Annan 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
