Surface Quotes

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Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath… — Carl Bernstein
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come… — Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement… — Emile Argand
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished… — John Playfair
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and… — Adam Sedgwick
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it… — Elisha Gray
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from… — Judy Collins
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do… — Oscar Wilde
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it. — Velimir Khlebnikov
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling… — Naoto Fukasawa
A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light… — Ross Lovegrove
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light. I cannot will… — Joyce Tenneson
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment Â– one thought or emotion after… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves. — Jennifer Garner
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!' — Alan Bean
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. — Laura Dern

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