The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“Everyone should be very grateful radioactivity exists at all. It can kill you, yes, but without it you wouldn't have been born… — Christophe Galfard Copy Share Image
Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg 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
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can… — Indra Devi Copy Share Image
Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
