Surface Quotes - page 6

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance. (Jane Smiley)
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath. View quote
Alexander Skarsgard
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect. View quote
Alexander Skarsgard
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. View quote
Michael Caine
It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort. View quote
Ann Brashares
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.” -In the yellow time of pollen. View quote
Luke Davies
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. View quote
Laura Dern
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? View quote
Gerard O'Neill
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. View quote
James Bryant Conant
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. (Howard Nemerov)
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them. View quote
Nicolas Steno
when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life. View quote
P. C. Cast
Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams. View quote
P. C. Cast
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. View quote
David O. Russell
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. View quote
Alfred Sisley
I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray. View quote
Dodie Smith
Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. View quote
Charlotte Joko Beck
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well. View quote
Anne Parillaud
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? (Anne Parillaud)
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. View quote
Bobby Ray Inman
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head. View quote
Chad Smith
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. View quote
Chris Hardwick