Surface Quotes - Page 21

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

Dennis McKenna

Ignorance, Understanding, Spheres

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Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

Dave Barry

Differences, Interesting

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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

Albert Einstein

Track, Interesting, Lucky

Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seelig, (p. 80), 1956.

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As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

Charles Darwin

Beautiful, Believe, Broken

Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

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The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

Gustav Stresemann

Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany

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Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

David Nalbandian

Player, Pay, Pressure

"David Nalbandian attacks ATP after kick gifts title to Marin Cilic" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2012.

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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Anne Carson

Emotional, Thinking, Sensual

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People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

Stan Barstow

Real, People, Sometimes

Stan Barstow (1969). “The hidden part”

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Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

Harville Hendrix

Romantic Love, Frustration, Childhood

Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt (2013). “Making Marriage Simple: Ten Relationship-Saving Truths”, p.21, Harmony

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Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that way. In reality, we have doubts just like everyone else.
Bringing your Lead’s doubts to the surface in your plot pulls the reader deeper into the story, and this is an excellent way to coax the reader to lose himself in the story world you’re about to create.

James Scott Bell

Writing, Character, Reality

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The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

George Mercer Dawson

Stones, Fossils, Sand

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Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Josh Gates

Home, Growth, Doe

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Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

James Forten

Country, Dark, People

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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Practice, Meditation, Mind

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When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

Garrison Keillor

Beautiful, Dog, Writing

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I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

John Singer Sargent

Eye, Beneath The Surface, My Own

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Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Ali Smith

Two, Narrative, Invisible

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We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

Richard Branson

Couple, Future, Men

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Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

Isaac Newton

Distance, Science, Squares

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Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

Renzo Piano

Light, Giving, Quality

Renzo Piano (1997). “Logbook”

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The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

Laozi

Real, Men, Tao

Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

Brooke Astor

Nice, Quality, May

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We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Years, Perspective, Missing

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If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

Benjamin Franklin

Taken, Glasses, Doubt

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are and just trying on the surface to become someone. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God himself has created you; you cannot be improved.

Rajneesh

God, Moving, Ideas

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