Surface Quotes

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What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of… — Jon McGregor
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch… — Howard Zinn
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between… — Dean Koontz
What an awful thing life is, isnâ€™t it? Itâ€™s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. — Gustave Flaubert
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but… — Stephen Hawking
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. — Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect… — Carl Jung
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies,… — Dan Brown
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces — Janet Fitch
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open… — Haruki Murakami
You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your… — Ellen Hopkins
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. — Milan Kundera
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and… — Janet Fitch
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well… — Isabel Allende
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. — Roald Dahl

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