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Quotes About Beneath

They seemed perfectly ordinary. This, Elliott deduced, was because they were burying their insanity deep beneath a façade of normality.
~ Jon Ronson
Be not concerned about her heart, my heart: be content if the music is true, though the words are not to be believed; enjoy the grace that dances like a lily on the rippling, deceiving surface, whatever may lie beneath.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.
~ RuPaul
Beneath me lay the Lake of Oblivion, above me loomed Insanity.
~ Walter Moers
His POV: Angela lies beneath us, embarrassed and vulnerable. This is not the mythically carnal creature of Lester's fantasies; this is a nervous child.
~ Alan Ball
Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.
~ Rae Armantrout
Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit.
~ Ramsey Campbell
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
~ Tom Allen
hypothesis, the argument 'beneath' (hypo) the surface.
~ Karen Armstrong
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
~ A. E. Housman
Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.
~ Rumi
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.
~ William Blake
Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
~ Laozi
Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.
~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
~ Bill Hicks
Hold the wire firmly so that it's taunt, and cross the wires around the bead. . Keep the wire firm and then cross them again, so as the wrapped wire you have just made lays beneath the previous crossed wire you made
~ Janice Love
people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged
~ Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The power of the dark side. The heat of passion and emotion. I can feel it in you, as well. Burning beneath the surface. Burning like your anger. It makes you strong.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision
~ E.E. Cummings
What's beyond logic happens beneath will; nor can these moments be translated: i say that even after April by God there is no excuse for May
~ E.E. Cummings
ON FRIDAY, 25 August, Roosevelt shocked most of his countrymen by dropping to the floor of Long Island Sound in one of the Navy's six new submarines, appropriately named the Plunger. He remained beneath the surface (lashed with heavy rain) long enough to watch fish swim past his window. Then, taking the controls, he essayed a few movements himself, including one which brought the ship to the surface rear end up.
~ Edmund Morris