Best skins & surface Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”

Heart My Heart Sitting Skins Rate Appearance Surface Tiny Crush Necks Bubbles Delicious Foreheads Heart Rate

Author:LIZ

“I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.”

Realizing Alive Wonderful Appreciate Skins Surface

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.”

Men Skins Surface Remove Machinery

Author:Paul Valery

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!”

Believe Reason Whole Truth Form Names Speak Understood Skins Appearance Surface Greek Tone Superficial Adore Folds Profundity Olympus

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.”

Knows Self Body Eye Running Failing Hair Arms Skins Mirrors Aging Surface Flesh Fats Spots Necks Pens Gray Weary Exhausted Veins Rope Sleeves Wrinkles Liver Hush Notches Freckles Cornered

Author:William H. Gass

“The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium...The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.”

Two Different Brain Skins Depth Surface Mediums Lakes Units Location Toes Fingertips

Author:Deane Juhan

“Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true self.”

Source: The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment

“Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.”

Looks Kind Character Stories Happens Skins Deeper Surface Storytelling Genre Related Layers Beneath The Surface

Author:Charlie Jane Anders

“What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour.”

Kind Happens Form Skins Surface Dry Protective Flour Hunk

Author:Alton Brown

“You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm. So the way that I avoid this is I keep my gravy - the second it's done, I put it in a thermos, which will keep it hot and will prevent air from getting to the surface. And I keep it there till the last moment. The last thing that goes out to the table is the gravy, and I pour it out of the thermos and immediately move it in.”

Knows Way Trying Done Moments Happens Lasts Moving Air Stage Skins Hot Tables Warm Surface Boat Gravy Thermos

Author:Alton Brown

“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.”

Ifs Want Looks Persons Beautiful Fun Common Beauty Skins Boring Surface Having Fun Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Author:Amanda Peet

“Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.”

Ifs Knows Two Sometimes Feelings Seems Might Eye Three Simple Deals Four Seeing Bears Skins Surface Upset Excitement Nerves Deceiving Can Not Armor Adjectives Composure Pronouns Adverbs

Author:Jose Saramago

“Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.”

Ifs Form Skins Surface

Book:The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic

“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

Thinking Knows Hands Pieces Blood Feet Skins Surface Cells Odd Flats Nerves Palms Vessel Blood Vessels

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)”

People Thinking Knows Night Born Couple Skins Opposites Surface Proof Ran Anna Doorstep Always Wrong Polar Opposites

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”

People Thinking Knows Skins Opposites Surface Always Wrong My Sister's Keeper Sisters Keeper Polar Opposites

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.”

Eye Faces Cutting Blood Skins Series Lips Surface Wounds Noses Rising Her Eyes Beaten Battered Liesel

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.”

Made Eye Black Water Dark Color Window Skins Blue Glasses Surface Snow Ice His Eyes Clinging Will Herondale Dark Glasses

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.”

Way Whole Water Percent Hundred Skins Surface Tiny Mud Ponds Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Siobhan Dowd

“Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams. It doesn't fell like metal. The colour is amazing". "Why?" (Trella) "It blends in. It matches your skin. Didn't you know?" (Riley) "No mirrors in my cell." (Trella) He gasped with mock horror. "So cruel! How did you ever survive?" (Riley)”

Knows Found Horror Skins Mirrors Fingers Surface Cells Ran Colour Necks Metals Mock Collars

Author:Maria V. Snyder

“As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.”

Soul Stories Body Would Be Written Wind Becoming Paper Pages Skins Hot Surface Dry Fables Crawling Papyrus

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

World Self Safe Skins Surface Bitterness Inner Self

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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