Quotes About Surface

Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

the modern mind...is interested above all in subtleties, equivocations and the subterranean complexities which dominate the average man and compose his life....modern literature is concerned with the twilight, the passive rather than the active mind...those undercurrents which flow beneath the apparently firm surface. (Joyce to Arthur Power)

They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They

The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

Beauty is only skin deep.

It is an old saying that "Order is Heaven's First Law," and like many other old sayings it contains a much deeper philosophy than appears immediately on the surface. Getting things into a better order is the great secret of progress, and we are now able to fly through the air, not because

Hearn's death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his punishment, and cannot remember his crime.

T?pk?, daha oluÅŸumunu tamamlamakta olan bir gezegenin yüzeyi gibi, üzeri beton, taÅŸ, kiremit, ahÅŸap ve pleksiglas ve kubbeyle kapl? iniÅŸli ç?k??l? ÅŸehir parçac?klar?, sanki a??r a??r aralanacaklar ve karanl???n içinden esrarl? yeralt?n?n alev rengi ayd?nl??? s?zacakt?.

If you know how to swim and manage to find your way up to the surface, you'll notice that for all it's melancholy, the Bosphorus is very beautiful, no less than life.

This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution – one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power are illuminated on the surface of events and the broader course of history becomes clear.

We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

he could feel the earth beneath, all the deep stone of it, cool and hard near the surface of the earth, but hotter and softer as you went deep, until it flowed like honey, a vast sweet fiery ocean of molten rock a thousand times more voluminous and ten thousand times heavier than the sea. It felt to him as if it were his own blood, and his heart pumped it.

Kovan?n yüzeyindeki buzu k?rsalar bile hemen tekrar donaca??n?, ama içeri s?cak bir yere koyduklar?nda, istedikleri gibi buzun çözüleceÄŸini onlara söylemedi.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

He glanced up in my direction and I froze. Quickly I turned away. There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Everydayness perfumes the depth of life, the huge ocean where all are interconnected, and makes your life mature. Then a new life arises from the depth and appears on the surface. So, by taking care of everydayness, you don't make just the surface mature; you also make the depth of your life mature.

Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.

As I did not know then but know now, the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

Stories order the pieces. They begin as seismic shifts, then they surface, becoming ripples that lap upon foreign shores. They are the echoes that resonate in this world and the next.

When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface