Surface Quotes - page 24

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again. (Sheryl Sandberg)
The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do. View quote
Bear Grylls
She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. View quote
Diane Chamberlain
By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface. View quote
Debbie Ford
In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart's greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment. View quote
Debbie Ford
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it. View quote
Jack Canfield
I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. View quote
Janet Fitch
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. View quote
James Carroll
The stream at the end of your street can be a place where you make contact with this whole other amazing world hidden right there beneath the surface. Fishing can be the passport to that world. View quote
Jeremy Wade
I love this quote when Valerian the King of the Nymphs says to his mate Shaye; "I am Valerian, leader of the nymphs. You may call me Oh God, that is what the other surface dwellers have preferred to call me". View quote
Gena Showalter
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. (Jean-Georges Noverre)
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. View quote
Ali Smith
I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface. View quote
Ken Liu
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it. View quote
Chris Cleave
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial. View quote
Lee Strobel
The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love. View quote
Lauren Oliver
Thailand was never a European colony, so even though the city is very Western on the surface, deep down it's very Asian. It's quite enigmatic, and I like that. I can't get to the bottom of Bangkok, and I never will. View quote
Lawrence Osborne
Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. View quote
Michael Caine
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration. View quote
Herb Kelleher
It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison. View quote
May Sarton
Then said the people to the prophet: "Shall not black hills draw round in some forsaken land, to make a vale-wide cauldron wherein the molten rock shall seethe and roar, and where the crags of mountains shall be hurled upward to the surface and bubble and go down again, that there our enemies may boil for ever?” And the prophet answered: "It is writ large about the bases of Pegāna's mountains, upon which sit the gods: ‘Thine Enemies Are Forgiven.'”. (Lord Dunsany)
When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power. View quote
Agnes Martin
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! View quote
George Matthew Adams
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters. View quote
Kristin Armstrong
As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control. View quote
Jo Brand