Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man;… — Jeremy Bentham
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil. — Wolfgang Pauli
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in… — Carolyn Porco
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having… — Meher Baba
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface. — Jenny Valentine
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do… — Jack Canfield
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves… — Nick Cave
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about… — John Ortberg
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his… — Hermann Broch
A painted surface is a real, living form. — Kazimir Malevich
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of… — Vladimir Vernadsky
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the… — Helen Frankenthaler
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as… — Sri Aurobindo
The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing.Â It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm. — Jean Houston
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition… — Anthony Braxton
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient… — Charles Lyell
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. — Robert Falcon Scott
The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it.Â However, we must… — B.K.S. Iyengar
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it… — Sanford I. Weill

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