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Surface Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
- 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
- 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…
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
- 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.…
More Surface Quotes
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. — Kevin Bacon
- To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams
- All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little… — John Banville
- Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in… — Samuel Beckett
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce