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- 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
- Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control… — Ambrose Bierce
- We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop… — Allan Bloom
- Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. — Randolph Bourne
- If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen