Surface Quotes
1360 quotes by 1044 authors
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Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
— Jack Handey
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We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in…
— Abraham Maslow
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Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions,…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of…
— Arpad Elo
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So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to…
— Howard G. Hendricks
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The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
— Steve Squyres
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No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if…
— David Spangler
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I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of…
— Lebbeus Woods
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
— John Dryden
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All art is at once surface and symbol.
— Oscar Wilde
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Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think…
— Charles P. Gerba
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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the…
— Rolf-Dieter Heuer
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I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal…
— Roger Caillois
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Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,…
— Roger Caillois
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It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy…
— Ellen G. White
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Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
— Nicholas G. Carr
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A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite…
— Edith Schaeffer
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At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of…
— Jesse James Garrett
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