Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we… — Michael Fassbender
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter… — Wilson Greatbatch
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on. — Daniela Hantuchova
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both… — Bobby Ray Inman
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly… — Nicole Krauss
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have… — Edwin Way Teale
On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside. — Ray Davies
That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. — Robert M. Pirsig
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think… — Peter Zumthor
The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are huge issues that… — Patricia Arquette
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite… — Swami Vivekananda
Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the… — Steven Pinker
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the… — John Burnham Schwartz
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of… — Eckhart Tolle
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam
Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the… — Faith Prince
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. — Bill Viola
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. — James Hansen

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