Surface Quotes

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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at… — Derek Jarman
I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be -… — David Cronenberg
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present… — Cecil Rhodes
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves,… — Carolyn Kizer
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul -… — Annie Leibovitz
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and… — Joko Beck
What was once underground is now coming to the surface. — Gavin Bryars
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus… — Max Beckmann
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get… — T Bone Burnett
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. — Rudolf Carnap
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously… — David Douglass
A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A… — Steve Fossett
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to… — Urs Fischer
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any… — Kathy Acker
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry. — Smokey Robinson
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as… — Albert Einstein
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains… — Galileo Galilei
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal… — Alasdair MacIntyre

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