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You're dancing on me said the cosmic dragon, the galactic surface of all we can see.
So fucking what? she said. — Alice Notley
It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.
— Jan Ellison
He couldn't do anything now but sit and wait for La Familia to surface, and when they did, he'd be ready.
— Joe Awsum
Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown
— Jolene Brackey
Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
— Victoria Laurie
No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.
— Brooke Astor
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed ... magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
— Neil Armstrong
The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon.
— Neale Osborne
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
— Garry Winogrand
No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.
— Umberto Eco
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
— James Bryant Conant
These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.
— Thomas Hardy
They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Maybe I'll post a consumer review. "Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.
— Andy Weir
The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil.
— J.D. Robb
Understanding the complexities of life may seem very deep, but truth actually resides right on the surface.
— Maximus Freeman
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
— Vernon Howard
Something was moving quietly through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet; several somethings in fact,
— Douglas Adams
You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
— Joan Mitchell
Little symbols of love are like molten lava, there's something even hotter below the surface.
— Dixie Waters
He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.
— Ted Dekker
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface ...
— Hermann Broch
We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.
— Moira Fowley-Doyle
We believe that we see the world around us, and yet it is only the surface that we perceive.
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
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.
— Elaine Scarry
Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The
— Sarah J. Maas
Anomie is not a danger only for the young; it may surface in what is now conventionally called the "crisis of mid-life" or anywhere else.
— Walter Brueggemann
I walk on the surface of a shifting bog. I have to grab for whatever I can find that is solid.
— Morgan Llywelyn
As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.
— Ellen Stofan
The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox.
— Natalie Babbitt
A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
— Willie Nelson
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
— Nema Al-Araby
Felt for a minute frightened by the jungle, its voracious appetite and ambition, its hunger to consume every surface it encountered.
— Hanya Yanagihara
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives.
— Kazimir Malevich
To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.
— Henry David Thoreau
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
— Etty Hillesum
Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.
— Jordan Ellenberg
I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.
— Suzy Kassem
People are only rational on the surface.
— Stephen King
They "cruise" or hold themselves up with furniture in search of the hardest and sharpest surface to bang their head on.
— Jim Gaffigan
In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.
— Stephen King
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
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
— Louis Agassiz
Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
— Wallace Stevens
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
— James Whistler
There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.
— Cheryl Strayed
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
— Albert Einstein
Most art is just surface noise.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
— Dan Brown
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.
— Swami Vivekananda
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
— Rineke Dijkstra
The waters of her emotions ran deep, and he was only privy to the splashes on the surface.
— Travis Luedke
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Surface my wife's most vicious
— Pat Conroy
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
— Herb Kelleher
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
— Rudolf Carnap
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
The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.
— Herb Elliott
Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night.
— Terry Pratchett
Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite.
— Augusten Burroughs
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
She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
— Elizabeth Wein
