Surface Quotes

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Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on… — Luc Sante
When you move as openness and softness of heart youâ€™re moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is.… — John de Ruiter
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives. — C.S. Lewis
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in… — Mary Heilmann
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings… — Stephen Sondheim
Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and… — Anais Nin
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or… — Anais Nin
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. — Hans Christian Andersen
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on… — Robert Benchley
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the… — Lewis Mumford
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind… — George Matthew Adams
There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is… — Hilaire Belloc
I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid. — Pete Sampras

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