Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things.… — Robert Wilson Lynd
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do… — David Mamet
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time… — Kevin McCloud
I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems… — Alan Moore
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it. — Jeanne Moreau
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.' — Viggo Mortensen
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the… — Viggo Mortensen
I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic… — Emily Mortimer
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov
I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am… — Rafael Nadal
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the… — Howard Nemerov
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so… — Michael Nesmith
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy… — Susan Orlean
Vanity is but the surface. — Blaise Pascal
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. — Ivan Pavlov
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of… — Ivan Pavlov
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get… — Amanda Peet
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. — Steven Pinker
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual… — Steven Pinker

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