Surface Quotes - Page 27

• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  Urs Fischer

  Relief, Add, Sculpture

  Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

  Kathy Acker

  Easy, Love Each Other

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• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Two, Water, Auditors

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• 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

  Lonely, Trying, Crowds

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• The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, May, Pleasure

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• We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Simple, Towers

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• [M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Culture, Stranger, Appearance

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.290, A&C Black

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• Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Scratches, Way

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Support, Fusion, Nuclear

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Insecurity, Peaceful, Faults

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• Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Care, Wells, I Don't Care

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• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Ratios

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• Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Thinking, Leader, Sides

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• That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?

  Nicole Krauss

  Regret, Writing, Cutting

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Animal, Scratches

  Song: Hatred, Album: Phobia

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• That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mind, Looks

  'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 25

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• Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.

  Diego Luna

  Interesting, Tourists, Scratches

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• Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Opposites, Games, Play

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• Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Decision

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• There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

  Mary Roach

  Years, People, Mars

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• I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Home, Clubs

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• Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

  Chad Smith

  Sound, Rebound, Rings

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• The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Southern, Process, Faster

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• The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

  Johannes Stark

  Expression, Important, Size

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