Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a… — Nicholas Sparks 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
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
“If my vision comes to a halt at the surface of a thing, I have missed the whole of the thing.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of… — E. O. Wilson 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
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision. — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news. — Constance Zimmer Copy Share Image
I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Every hurt buried deep in the mind has an uncanny ability to surface and make its presence felt when I am feeling… — Vijaya Gowrisankar Copy Share Image
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.' — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars...… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface. — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
