Surface Quotes

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The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again. — Frederick Lenz
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent… — Shantideva
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh,… — David Weber
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… — Paul Davies
NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid… — O J Simpson
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They… — Gerhard Richter
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very… — Gerhard Richter
In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy… — Alice Hegan Rice
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face. — Mata Amritanandamayi
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here. — Alan Shepard
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it… — Gene Cernan
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds.… — Janet Malcolm
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

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