Surface Quotes
1360 quotes by 1018 authors
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Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom.…
— James Lind
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
— Gilbert White
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In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
— John Clayton
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Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
— Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not…
— Helen Wills Moody
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We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record…
— Adrian Belew
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
— Candice Bergen
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Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
— Bradley Chicho
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This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine…
— Julian Schnabel
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That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected…
— Jo Durie
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When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on…
— will.i.am
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On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a…
— Jon Landau
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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on…
— Annie Besant
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I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich…
— Sean Scully
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false…
— Lord Byron
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As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well,…
— Serj Tankian
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His laughter, which was never far below the surface of his conversation, now sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.
— Joseph Lelyveld
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