Quotes Tagged "surface"

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.

But now, discontinuity ruled. Yesterday meant nothing and could not help you build tomorrow. Life had become a series of vanishing photographs, posted every day, gone the next. One had no story anymore. Character, narrative, history, were all dead. Only the flat caricature of the instant remained, and that was what one was judged by. To have lived long enough to witness the replacement of the depth of her chosen world's culture by its surfaces was a sad thing.

I don't know you. I can't know you. You don't even know yourself, see? And me, do you know me? No. Even less. You know what I tell you, and I tell you the truth, but maybe not all. And you read my feelings, my surface feelings—the pain of a stubbed toe, a quick flash of annoyance, the pleasure I get when you're in me. Does that mean you know me? What of my levels, and levels? What about the things I don't even know myself? Do you know them? How, Robb, how?

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration.

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

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

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

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past.

I haven't scratched the surface of what I can become offensively.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Vanity is but the surface.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.