Surface Quotes - Page 6

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

You have to be aware that whenever you leave your house, you're probably going to be photographed by someone somewhere. Maybe those pictures will surface. Maybe they won't. Maybe those videos will surface. Maybe they won't. But you have to always be aware that it could be happening.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

Golden is a surface colour.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy.

A painted surface is a real, living form.

What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.

You can't be deep without a surface

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.