We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well. — Anne Parillaud Copy Share Image
Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Distribution of weight is preferable to balancing everything on the head of a pin.” — Psixaristw Copy Share Image
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a… — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean -… — Jon Bowermaster Copy Share Image
We all are influenced by things and copy things, but often where there is a certain level of copying, only the surface… — Jason Fulford Copy Share Image
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly… — Marc Reisner Copy Share Image
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. — Anonymous Copy Share Image