Surface Quotes - Page 14

• If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

  Jana Novotna

  Fun, Games, Interesting

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• One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.

  Tamara E. Jernigan

  Clever, Successful, Space

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• Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

  Albert Hadley

  Rooms, Ceilings, Interior Design

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• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

  Katrina Kenison

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

  Peter Enns

  Mirrors, Losing Control, Expectations

  Peter Enns (2014). “The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

  Markus Heitz

  Heart, Encounters, Looks

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• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.

  Linda Gregerson

  Book, Soul, Quality

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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• If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

  Wendell Berry

  Widows And Orphans, Sick, Insane

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• The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Other Worlds, Rivers

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Faces, Mystery

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Rough Edges, Exit

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.228, Canongate Books

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• A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE

  John Baldessari

  Two, Articulation

  Mark Lawrence Rosenthal, Marla Prather, Ian Alteveer, Rebecca Lowery, Polly Apfelbaum (2012). “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, p.119, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Women, Citizens

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Inspirational, Character, Weight

  Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1896). “The philosophy of art. The ideal in art”

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• The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Independent

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

  Ansel Adams

  Photographer, Latent, Landscape Photography

  Ansel Adams, Nancy Wynne Newhall, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (1963*). “Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963”

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• My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

  Richard Avedon

  Reading, Ideas, Excellence

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Brotherhood, Identity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Play, Cups

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• Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

  Jim Courier

  Years, Forgiving, Lucky

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• The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.

  Bridget Riley

  Moving, Eye, Events

  Bridget Riley, Arts Council of Great Britain (1984). “Working with colour: recent paintings and studies”

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• The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

  Piet Mondrian

  Giving, Enjoyment

  "Abstract Painting" by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., (p. 11), 1964.

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• What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  "Earth's Aura". Book by Louise B. Young, 1977.

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