Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
