Best Surface Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 32

“It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.”

People Two Matter Reason Seems Together Water Ocean Tired Silent Wave Caring Surface Noise Loud Rough Marvelous Bothered Marvelous Things Stop Caring

Book:Goodbye Tsugumi

Source: Goodbye Tsugumi

“Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy condition, the system is burdened with impure matter....and if the garments worn are not frequently cleansed...the pores of the skin absorb again the waste matter thrown off. The impurities of the body... are taken back into the blood, and forced upon the internal organs.”

Ifs Matter Body Taken Blood Conditions Healthy Waste Skins Surface Passing Passings Thrown Internals Organs Worn Garments Impurity

Author:Ellen G. White

“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

Guy Sea Surface Jet Skis Zips Scuba Scuba Divers

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.”

Source: Hidden art

“At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.”

Lasts Realizing Path Rich Months Surface Application Interaction Adaptive Responsiveness Ajax

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.”

Surface Ease

Book:Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

Source: Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

“When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.”

World Beautiful Space Tears Surface Beautiful Things

Author:Elaine Scarry

“The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.”

Years Humans Two Use Earth Humanity Energy Hours Land Wind Needed Responsible Wave Surface Strikes Enormous Heat Portions Sunlight Flux Solar Energy Energy Use Biomass

Author:Christopher Flavin

“When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.”

Stills Depth Surface Circles Lakes Disturbed Wondrous Pebbles

Author:Khalil Gibran

“When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface”

Men Food Dinner Surface True Man

Book:Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

Source: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

“When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.”

Want Giving Feels Sometimes Faces Choices Difficult Water Natural Situation Terrible Instinct Surface Breathe Relief Get Back Drowning Difficult Things Runaway Natural Instinct

Author:Buck 65

“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”

Humans Soul Shows Body Running Education Skills Shining Clouds Surface Spots Colour Inherent Veins Human Soul Marble Fetch Quarry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger”

Grows Understanding Ignorance Areas Bigger Surface Spheres

Author:Dennis McKenna

“I work with a lot of music programs and there's a steep learning curve to a lot of them. You can really find yourself trying to figure out how to do things, instead of making music. Now I have another tool with the Surface music kit.”

Trying Figures Program Tools Surface Finding Yourself Curves Steep Learning Curve

Author:Joe

“Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.”

Differences Interesting Surface

Author:Dave Barry

“When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.”

Enough Realizing Interesting Lucky Blind Track Surface Covered Globes Beetles

Author:Albert Einstein

“As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.”

Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

“The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.”

Ifs Facts Term Economy Economic Position Dancing Credit Surface Germany Collapse Sections Short Term Flourishing Volcanoes

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.”

Sometimes Play Happens Pay Player Dangerous Pressure Surface Things Happen Injured

Author:David Nalbandian

“I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.”

Thinking Feels Facts Ability Records Emotional Surface Sensual Constructs Convincing Emotional Life

Author:Anne Carson

“People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.”

People Real Sometimes Seems Values Surface Real Value

Book:The hidden part

Source: The hidden part

“Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that way. In reality, we have doubts just like everyone else. Bringing your Lead’s doubts to the surface in your plot pulls the reader deeper into the story, and this is an excellent way to coax the reader to lose himself in the story world you’re about to create.”

World Way Writing Character Stories Reality Loses Interesting Doubt Reader Deeper Surface Excellent Plot Plunge

Author:James Scott Bell

“The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.”

Found Stones Surface Sand Fossils Fragments Charcoal

Author:George Mercer Dawson

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

Ifs World Doe Home Lost Growth Return Surface Wander Reflecting Outside World

Author:Josh Gates

“Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.”

People Stills Country Dark Masters Glory Slavery Surface Our Country Spots Submit Globes

Author:James Forten

“In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Meditation Sitting Bottom Surface Relate Daily Life Hiding Neurosis Meditation Practice

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.”

People World Way Want Writing Looks Beautiful Loses Dog Surface

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.”

Eye My Own Surface Beneath The Surface

Author:John Singer Sargent

“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.”

Ifs Two Surface Invisible Narrative

Author:Ali Smith

“Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.”

Knows Willing Ocean Depth Surface Shore Plunge

Book:The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development

Source: The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development

“If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.”

Source: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.”

Needs Products Surface Globes Expanding Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.”

Source: The Act of Creation

“Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.”

“I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.”

Believe Fields Surface Enjoyed Peace Within

Author:David Lynch

“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”

Thinking Want Dream Hours Loses Growing Awareness Mere Surface Absurd Bitterness Vegetables Extinction Moss Savour Without A Trace

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Character Form Forget Habit Long Time Yoga Instinct Bottom Come Up Surface Impression Atmosphere Lakes Another Life

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come, man's intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace. ...let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.”

Knows Men World Light Age Earth Together Humanity Spirituality Grows Causes Greater Blood Divine Unity Surface Rays

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.”

Doe Moving Form Conditions Despair Findings Edges Terror Surface Driven Likes Wander Yield Assurance Precipice Wanderers Schubert

Book:Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures

Source: Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures

“Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.”

Ifs Knows Happens Can Do Ocean Standing Wave Surface Bad Things Get Back Parts Of Life Shoreline

Book:Look Again

Source: Look Again

“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”

Way Doe Literature Danger Betrayal Surface Ice Betray Smooth Betrayed Slippery

Author:John Dryden

“The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.”

World Shows Easy Simple Fantasy Seeing Magic Glasses Complicated Surface Mess Harry Potter Magician Potters Narnia Magnifying Magnifying Glass

Author:Naomi Novik

“A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).”

Doe Moving Black Space White Objects Color Painting Band Illusion Paint Rounds Edges Surface Neighbor Squares Hierarchy Ambiguity Intervals Exterior Rectangles

Author:Jo Baer

“Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.”

“You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.”

Knows Surface Sanity Fragile Beneath The Surface

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.”

May Seems Pain Fine Remains Surface

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.”

Trying Looks Doe Subjects Surface Flats Sensations Manifest Marvelous

Author:Euan Uglow

“Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.”

Kind Hands Levels Four Feet Stage Building Degrees Built Size Various Surface Planning Preparation Beer Software Steady Execution Towers Vary Steady Hands

Book:Code Complete

Source: Code Complete

“The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the spring times, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.”

Giving Shows Pain Faces Joy Our Lives Circumstances Summer Spring Seasons Winter Surface Autumn Radiant Ponds Spring Time Autumn And Winter

Author:Gary Zukav

“Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.”

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