Surface Quotes

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We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -… — Christopher McDougall
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that… — Brian Eno
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in… — Leslie Orgel
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But… — Alvar Aalto
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so… — Paul Cezanne
In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under… — Akira Kurosawa
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces… — Jonathan Raban
Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave… — Diego Luna
Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who… — Chance the Rapper
There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars. — Mary Roach
I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and… — Paula Radcliffe
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the… — Chad Smith
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are… — Johannes Stark
When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind. — Beah Richards
There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface,… — Frederick Lenz
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns… — Ratan Tata
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to… — Amy Waldman
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it,… — Frederick Lenz

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