Quotes of: Surface Keyword

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Mark Haddon

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Louise Leakey

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Amanda Lindhout

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Steven Squyres

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court.

Helen Wills Moody

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Jeremy Spencer

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Guy Billout

As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.

Jan Chipchase

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Constantin Brancusi

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

Buzz Aldrin

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

will.i.am

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Ratan Tata

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness - for consciousness -is- a surface - must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So ...

Ecce Homo/The Antichrist

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon layi...

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

Coma House

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

The Deadly Hunter

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Denial