On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. — Bradley Chicho 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
It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon,… — David Weber Copy Share Image
On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like… — Jeremy Spencer Copy Share Image
It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals,… — Thomas Merton 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
“I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability.… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson. — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image