Surface Quotes

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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier… — Terry Pratchett
The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another. — Leonardo da Vinci
Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water. — Mooji
You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and… — Gary Zukav
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… — Ishmael Reed
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface… — Richard Avedon
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should… — Marquis de Sade
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but… — Max Bill
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.… — Ramakrishna
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a… — Jimmy Breslin
A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a… — Jean Baudrillard
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it… — Lee Strobel
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface… — Stephen Sondheim
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal… — Neil Armstrong
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the… — John Maynard Keynes
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall
The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer… — Henry David Thoreau

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