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It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath. — Alyson Richman

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. — Horace Mann

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

Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown — Jolene Brackey

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. — Roger McDonald

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. — Olivia Colman

Surface beauty ... is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see. — Alex Flinn

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. — Dan Simmons

It's good when it gets messy,' Sully said. 'Hard, but good, because that's when the stuff we need to see comes to the surface. That's where God is. — Nancy Rue

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath. — Jacob M. Braude

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming. — Laura Lee Gulledge

All perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. — Stanislaw Lem

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

My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there. — Marie Helvin

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here. — Alan Shepard

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. — Roald Dahl

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface — Philip Roth

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it. — Nagaru Tanigawa

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence. — Richard Taylor

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface. — James Nicoll

I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do. — Andy Weir

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

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle

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

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

The savage is never far from the surface in any of us, but because we know he is there we fight it down. — Louis L'Amour

Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction. — Joey W. Hill

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

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

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath. — Don Winslow

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

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. — Charles Horton Cooley

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich

It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long. — Philip K. Dick

The function of ritual ... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. — Joseph Campbell

On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me? — Jill Mansell

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface. — Alvin Rosenfeld

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me. — Brian Eno

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry. — Smokey Robinson

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine

But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. — Sherri Gaillard

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare

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

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

I mean, jillian gushed. you have this force connecting you. it's under the surface, but it runs deep. — Joan Bauer

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath. — Michael Sheen

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface. — Henry Ward Beecher

Backwards law. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. — Alan W. Watts

Cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event — Harold Rosenberg

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. — Henry David Thoreau

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

You can sink a thing deep, weight it down with stones, but eventually, it will surface. — Jennifer McMahon

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. — Robertson Davies

But old wounds don't stop aching. They are always under the surface, ready to remind one of the original injuries. — Anne Perry

Understanding the complexities of life may seem very deep, but truth actually resides right on the surface. — Maximus Freeman

An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject — Frank Wynne

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything — Stewart Stafford

Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil. — Wolfgang Paul

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get. — Laura Kasischke

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac

On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Vanity is but the surface. — Blaise Pascal

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

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source. — Jaggi Vasudev

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all. — Cathy Davidson

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further. — Amanda Craig

Just a plain hobbit you look,' said Bilbo. 'But there is more about you now than appears on the surface. Good luck to you! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web. — Diana Gabaldon

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. — Janet Maslin

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

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface. — Bo Burnham

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

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe. — Jessica Sorensen

Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly. — Ellis Peters

But there was always so much we didn't know about people, lurking right below the surface where we couldn't see it. — Laura McHugh

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth. — Joshua Ferris

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

We are but an ephemeral bubble drifting on the surface of an endless void. Yet I can think of no bubble more beautiful. — Miyuki Miyabe

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath. — Sara Shepard

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. — Lynn Margulis

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. — Stephen Schwartz

Something pretty ... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it. — Jeanne Moreau

But while the surface has the sun, I would much rather be down here with you. — Aimee Carter

On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry — Bjork

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. — Margaret Atwood

I'm scared, but I need to get out of this room. I need to find ways to distract the gnawing pain that feeds off of every surface of my body. — Sara Farizan

Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface — Toby Hemenway

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi