Surface Quotes

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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear… — Douglas Adams
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. — Annie Dillard
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green — Andre Breton
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know weâ€™ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three… — Jose Saramago
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. — A. Lee Martinez
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to… — Jerry Seinfeld
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface… — Mitch Albom
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and… — George Orwell
The truth is always an abyss. One must â€” as in a swimming pool â€” dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday… — Franz Kafka
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanityâ€“awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most… — Richard Paul Evans
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that peopleâ€™s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows whatâ€™s at the… — Haruki Murakami
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. — Colin Powell

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