Quotes with surface

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
  • Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
  • 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.
  • There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Erickson 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.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • John Banville All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jacob Braude Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
    Jacob Braude
     
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  • Buzz Aldrin Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Bradley Chicho Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Buzz Aldrin By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Paul Goodman Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John Dryden Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
    Source: Civilization in Transition (1964)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ali Smith 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.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • André Gide Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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!
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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