Surface Quotes

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The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard… — Joe Rogan
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not… — Karl Rove
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people… — Bertrand Russell
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves,… — David O. Russell
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking… — Jerry Saltz
The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,… — Jerry Saltz
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion,… — Marjane Satrapi
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live… — Albert Schweitzer
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around… — Maurice Sendak
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria… — Michael Sheen
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath. — Michael Sheen
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder… — Alfred Sisley
If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface. — Nikki Sixx
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free… — Alexander Skarsgard
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according… — Jane Smiley
I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. — Robert Smith
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. — Stephen Sondheim
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change… — Johannes Stark

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