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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
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
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
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
My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
— Marie Helvin
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
— Roald Dahl
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 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 duckpaddling, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
