Quotes About Surface

They made a silly mistake though,' the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

One must remember that mathematics is like death, never makes mistakes, never plays tricks. If we are unable to see those irrational curves or solids, it only means that they inevitably possess a whole immense world somewhere beneath the surface of our life...

He was always thinking of death, and this had so refined him that the physical seemed to fall away, freeing him from the pull of earth and enabling him to walk about some distance above its surface. Indeed he felt that even his distaste and hatred for the affairs of the world no longer stirred him deeply.

There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.

As the sliding doors opened the wet Florida heat hit me in the face like a sneezing dragon. The surface

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Now he would inhabit the very center of corridors. He would put no hand to any surface. He would believe like a ghost that knew if it made contact with anyone or anything its touch would slide through and that creature would then know that it existed in a state of purgatory.

The voices of the women had the especially sweet and rapturous charm of a gentle stroke passing over the surface of one's skin.

Maintaining an appearance mattered as much—more—than what was underneath. The deeper things could come and go, but what broke the surface would be lodged in everyone's memory.

Sometimes," Jameson Hawthorne said, sounding strangely contemplative, "things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.

On the surface," he told me, "it appears that the letter outlines what we already know: My grandfather died and left everything to the devil he didn't know, thereby reversing the fortune of many. Why? Because power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

moving toward Martina Franca, a fortified town near the city of Brindisi. As far as we can tell, he stumbled into vent E7. It was on cooldown after a surface shot; that's why the troll isn't crispy barbecue right now." Holly grimaced. Charming, she thought. "We've been lucky in that our target has bumped into

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

She uses a new image to make me understand how she lives: it's like the morning when she bathes and her body withdraws while she stares at the surface of the bath water. 'I am the thought on the bath in the room without mirrors.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths