Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.
A painted surface is a real, living form.
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
Injustice is a scar in the surface of the earth and death to the victim soul.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
Countless times, I have imagined A. rising through the rivers of this land, to the surface of Florida to be found again, pulled into the air by new hands. The possibilities are endless, but most often I imagine him found by children. Above him, the s...
My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the faces of their lost sons when they look at ...
Wow," Puck mused, standing beside me. "The River of Dreams." ... Moons, comets and constellations rippled on the surface, and other, stranger things floated upon the misty black waters. Petals and book pages, butterfly wings and silver medals. The hi...
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 bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends,...
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long—the care of cares—the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven—and straig...
Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.
