Surface Quotes

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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. — John Ruskin
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds… — Georges Cuvier
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface,… — Sri Aurobindo
Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the… — Terence McKenna
The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that… — Myles Munroe
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no… — Stephen Hawking
It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring… — Buck Brannaman
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of… — Albert Camus
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal… — Eckhart Tolle
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery. — Terence McKenna
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds… — Bruce Lee
Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the… — Sivananda
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole… — Stephen Mitchell
My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Donâ€™t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might… — David LaChapelle
Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as… — Karl Marx
Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. — Danny Boyle
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory. — Neil Armstrong
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm… — Alexander Skarsgard

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