Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail… — Markus Heitz Copy Share Image
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it:… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all… — Christine Feehan 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
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content… — Roger Black Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me.… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A… — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation.… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
