Surface Quotes · Page 3

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

— Isabelle Huppert

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

— Tracey Ullman

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

— John Sexton

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

— Andy Gilbert

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

— Brad Williams

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

— Jules Olitski

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

— Milan Kundera

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

— Peace Pilgrim

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle…

— Gilles Peress

For every crime there is a price, due by pain or shame; underneath every monster lies a beast that isn't tame.

— Jamie Timbre

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

— Anonymous

Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow…

— H. W. L. Poonja

“the surface. To begin to approach that goal, we need a new psychology that can help us get closer to each other…

— William Glasser M.D

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't…

— Robert Smith

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

— Laura Lee

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of…

— John Wesley

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its…

— Antonin Artaud

With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not…

— Jennifer Lee

Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that…

— Peter Senge

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for…

— Frank Gohlke

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish…

— Rose George

And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and…

— Anna Quindlen

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

“If you draw the full length of the blade through the fish in one gentle sweep, the resulting cross section is smooth…

— Tetsu Kariya

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those…

— Anonymous

“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher…

— Marva Collins

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but…

— Wynn Bullock

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

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

— Richard Ellmann

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

— Simone Weil

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

— Georg Baselitz

To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

— Deane Juhan

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

— Mason Cooley

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

— Albert Einstein