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I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.
— Allan Moyle
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.
— Christopher Rice
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
— Al Gore
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can't be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.
— Erin Hunter
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
— Stephen Sondheim
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
— Delmore Schwartz
One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.
— Jude Watson
You do not drown simply by plunging into water, you only drown if you stay beneath the surface.
— Paulo Coelho
Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.
— Ramon Stevens
Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab.
— Robin Sloan
Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.
— Max Lucado
If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.
— Morris Gleitzman
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.
— Steven Pinker
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck
paddling, paddling, paddling. — Scott Stossel
paddling, paddling, paddling. — Scott Stossel
Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.
— John Steinbeck
Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
— Bruce Brander
Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows.
— Jess Walter
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
— Marcus Aurelius
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
— Sarah Dessen
We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.
— William Gerhardie
The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface. — Kamil Ali
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface. — Kamil Ali
It's the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what's beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.
— Fennel Hudson
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Those who are arrogant and controlling are determined to cling to spoken words but peaceful hearts are unafraid to go deeper beneath the surface.
— Kate McGahan
She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.
— Atalina Wright
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
— Al Gore
To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
— Ellen Meloy
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
— Ashly Lorenzana
You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
— Mortimer J. Adler
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
— Meredith Hall
In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.
— Rob Thomas
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
— John Singer Sargent
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
— John Zerzan
If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
— Nikki Sixx
Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That
— Connor Franta
Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface.
— Liane Moriarty
Death is always there, just beneath the surface.
— Mason Cooley
She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.
— Truth Devour
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface
— Chet Williamson
War doesn't start with an explosion ... .It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
— Kristina McMorris
Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.
— Jodi Picoult
Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.
— Peace Pilgrim
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
— Janet Maslin
A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.
— Thomas Pynchon
The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface
— Lisa Renee Jones
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.
— Debbie Ford
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
— A. Lee Martinez
Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
— Freya Stark
He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.
— Ted Dekker
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
— Robert Falcon Scott
There was something beneath the surface of things.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.
— Lily King
Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril.
— Oscar Wilde
Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
— Debbie Ford
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.
— Guillermo Del Toro
What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.
— Jeyn Roberts
There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
— Christophe Agou
A groundswell of silence moved between us.
Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath. — Lisa Kleypas
Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath. — Lisa Kleypas
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
— Gene Hackman
Until then she had been blind, but when she saw those mountains, she slipped beneath the surface of the war and found the country.
— Tatjana Soli
Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.
— Bryan Davis