Surface Quotes

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You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. — Andy Gilbert
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end… — W. Somerset Maugham
Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe. — Mary E. Pearson
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... — John M. Geddes
I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I… — Susan Griffin
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and… — D. H. Lawrence
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson
Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the… — Gabrielle Roth
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence… — Hugh Miller
Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and… — Hillel the Elder
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do… — Neil Gaiman
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment. — Louise Dickinson Rich
Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land,… — Karel Capek
Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet… — BrenÃ© Brown
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be… — Sarah Waters
As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes,… — Stephen Fry
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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