Surface Quotes

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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil… — Jorie Graham
If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that… — Ward Connerly
If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be… — Jana Novotna
One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and… — Tamara E. Jernigan
Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. — Albert Hadley
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,… — Katrina Kenison
Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something itâ€™s not meant to be, isnâ€™t a pious act… — Peter Enns
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond… — Markus Heitz
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Linda Gregerson
Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only… — David Hockney
If one accepts the 24thÂ and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take… — Wendell Berry
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that… — Wendell Berry
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf — Annie Dillard
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface… — Annie Dillard
A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE — John Baldessari
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain… — Hippolyte Taine
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of… — George Orwell
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon

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