Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes… — Lewis Thomas
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts… — Emma Thompson
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. — Tracey Ullman
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface. — Iyanla Vanzant
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos… — Alice Walker
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am.… — Andy Warhol
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far… — Isaac Watts
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world… — E. O. Wilson
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit,… — James A. Forbes
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is… — Chris Hardwick
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the… — Edna O'Brien
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of… — Chuck Palahniuk
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is… — Jules Verne
He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… — John Dewey
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its… — Jack Kirby
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go… — James McBride

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