Beneath the surface Quote by Thomas Pynchon Download Open image ““A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.”” — Thomas Pynchon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beneath the surface
“Rabbits lost their temper and one jumped on a Frog's head and smashed it against the grass.” — J.M.K. Walkow Copy Share Image
“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The rabbit presses back her ears, Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes And crouches low: then with wild spring Spurts from the terror of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There were frogs all right, thousands of them. Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You think all I can do is frog legs? I got Legs on my mind, alright, but yours. I’ll do whatever it takes the… — A. Violet End Copy Share Image
“A year ago I would’ve been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to… — Luella Christie Copy Share Image
“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“He sees the shit that happens around me - or because of me - so now he is only 99.99 percent certain I can't… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Vero collapsed in a chair, overtaken with delicious giggles. The child had bought underwear to match a plastic frog. An act of perfect silliness.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
“The frog's tongue rolled out, but the butterfly was not to be caught.” — Silvia Marsz Copy Share Image
“What a strange sensation to have the ground under your feet shift unexpectedly. One moment rock solid, the next quivering.” — Jane Toombs Copy Share Image
“once brought a frog home, hoping to keep him as a pet. Not a large frog, a one-handed frog, quiet and well mannered. My… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?” “Yes.” “Is… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
“The burning glow of fire basked him in a warm light. I feared to look at him, to study him again after the train,… — Rae Z. Ryans Copy Share Image
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the Earth. But man has only to sink beneath… — Jaques Barzun Cousteau Copy Share Image