Quotes About Surface

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.

the occasional alarming flash of Aral's doubts, like vivid filaments of lava seen through a surface one had thought safe stone.

she found herself staring at a large puddle of some kind of fuzz-covered mud. Her mind barely registered it at first, but the more she gazed at the odd-looking mud, the more it drew her attention. The mud was dark and tar-like. Just above the surface, almost as if it were suspended in midair, there was a fuzzy yellowish-brown scum.

Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface.

A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.

IV. IN THE MIDST OF FIRE          Pull the secondary emergency lever! cried the professor through the speaking tube to Washington. We must reach the surface at once!     Are we damaged? asked Andy, scrambling to his feet, for the shock had knocked him down. The professor had not fallen because he

It is easy to decide what men ought to be; but the student works in the depths, not on the surface.

The ice is always waiting, Aadam baba, just under the water's skin

They frowned, looked to one another with shallow and delighted eyes, eyes that just skimmed over the surface of things without understanding.

Look down, look down-see how the reeds wave in the water, they are alive but they never break the surface.

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

We took what came the way it came. Least it was that way on the surface. You scratched us a little, though, you could find some jelly there pretty quick. We were the kind that found it hard to cry, but once we got started you best be ready for high water and the loading of animals two by two.

Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long time spans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

The heat brings to the surface all my weaknesses.

Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive.

A trouble — nothing as beautiful as a sorrow — rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.