Surface Quotes

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. View quote
Andy Warhol
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. View quote
Colin Powell
When we speak the word "life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. View quote
Antonin Artaud
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. View quote
Maurice Denis
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. View quote
Rudolf Carnap
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. (Charles Dudley Warner)
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. View quote
Charles Cooley
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
Emil Cioran
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. View quote
Arianna Huffington
We'll slide down the surface of things... View quote
Bret Easton Ellis
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. View quote
Johnny Depp
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. View quote
Carl Jung
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. View quote
Peter Senge
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable...has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. (T. H. White)
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. View quote
André Gide
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. View quote
Che Guevara