Beneath The Surface Quotes

• 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

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• 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

  Thinking, Littles, Moments

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• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Care, Satisfied

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• There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

  Michael C. Hall

  Lying, Secret, Dexter Morgan

  "Fictional character: Dexter Morgan". Dexter (TV Series) Crocodile, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Peril, Symbols

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

  Bryan Davis

  Water, Depth, Creatures

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• Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gratitude, Quality, Looks

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Inspirational, Life, Two

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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• We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

  William Gerhardie

  Ocean, Consciousness, Iceberg

  1925 Polyglots, ch.14.

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• On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

  Jules Verne

  War, Ocean, Men

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• The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

  Meredith Hall

  Lying, Past, Remembered

  Meredith Hall (2007). “Without a Map: A Memoir”, p.250, Beacon Press

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

  Steven Pinker

  Mysterious, Surface, Feels

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• I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.

  David Lynch

  Pain, Flower, Creativity

  "Fifty Contemporary Film Directors". Book edited by Yvonne Tasker, p. 259, 2010.

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• We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Dream, Lying, Independent

  Robert Edmond Jones (2004). “The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue”, p.1, Routledge

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• As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rocks, Ice, Trying

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Profound, Depth

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• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  Freya Stark

  Light, Dust, Joy

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• We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Fun, Stupid, Creating

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• Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

  Beatrice Webb

  Running, Ego, Personal History

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• All art is at once surface and symbol.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Peril, Symbols

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rocks, Foundation, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Ocean, Moving, Ecosystems

  Source: www.avclub.com

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