Quotes About Surface

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil or delimit a depth. From the face that mirrors the soul, to the magic writing tablet that reveals subconscious drives, the surface, any surface, all surfaces, have been considered worthy of attention insofar as they are the top layer, the outermost skin, the merely visible envelope of more particularized and specific under or inner depths.

There's less here than meets the eye.

Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail.

Calli doesn't mean that you'll never see anyone as beautiful. When you see a smile that's genuine, you'll see beauty. When you see an act of courage or generosity, you'll see beauty. Most of all, when you look at someone you love, you'll see beauty. All calli does is keep you from being distracted by surfaces. True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love, and that's something that nothing can obscure.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue.

These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.

If you had a super-duper, jumbo-gigantic finger, and you dragged it across Earth's surface (oceans and all), Earth would feel as smooth as a cue ball.

But because the particle shower moves so fast relative to us and our detectors on Earth's surface, the muons experience the passage of time more slowly than we do.

Parts of Mars' surface is very close to the triple point of water, when it can be solid, liquid, and steam at the same time.

When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well.

Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens.

You live on the surface, Lia told me years later. You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity would collapse if you try to stand it up.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface.

Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.

He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn't seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Justifications, most of them, which are like certain rocks just below the surface of the water. You can lean on them, you can grab hold of them, but you can also hit them and hurt yourself very badly.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Helianos wanted to accept everything as it appeared on the surface; at least to interpret everything as favorably as he could, as mere kindliness, a wonderful improvement and a great blessing.

I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surface of the earth.