Surfaces Quotes

116 quotes by 103 authors

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps… — Lori Foster
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids… — R. Buckminster Fuller
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces — Janet Fitch
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and… — Janet Fitch
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world,… — Pablo Picasso
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain… — Keith Ablow
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the… — Nora Ephron
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another. — William Gibson
Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things — Rainer Maria Rilke
And as much as Iâ€™d like to believe thereâ€™s a truth beyond illusion, Iâ€™ve come to believe that thereâ€™s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between… — Donna Tartt
As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces. — Jan Chipchase

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