303 Surface Quotes for You to Enjoy

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space. Max Beckmann

Myself Space Three Picture Must Abstract Thus Protect Surface Infinity Form Transfer Which Height Plane Depth Phenomena Width

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 Too Other Way Some Something Uncomfortable Feel Suppose Reveal Surface Normal Scratch Ashamed Public Us Display Socially Things

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we're actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else. Mikko Hypponen

Time Competition Other Else Side Everyone Everyone Else Marketing Direct Seems Fact Vendors Known Knows Surface Sales Friendly Very In Fact Fierce Companies Each Technical Publicly Actually Competitors

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people. Misha Collins

Good Change People World Think Other Changes Way Ways Those Charities About Seem More Mysterious Smaller Idea Like Surface Traditional Lot Than Interacting Organizations World Changes Things Thinks Good Idea

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath. Morris Gleitzman

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. Nick Harkaway

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

Earth Between Bounded Poles Surface Enclosed Regard Certainty

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

Life Music You Sense Everything Inside Write Part Feel Like Most Powers Does How Surface Quickly Person Sensations Cut Regrets Suddenly Away Inner Desire Inner Life

The trails in South Africa are completely different to Europe: dusty and loose surface. Nino Schurter

South Africa Loose Surface South Trails Dusty Africa Different Europe

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

Water Other Earth Headquarters Surface Covered Third Two-Thirds

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. Olivia Colman

Me Ruined Everything Kids Pretty Having Emotional Equilibrium Surface Close

My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive. Paul Allen

Conservative School Progressive High High School Seemed Surface Seattle

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others. Paul Di Filippo

History Events Solar Beneath Others Our Solar System Distinct Neighboring Characteristics System Individuals Categorically Period Qualities Surface Still Equivalent Any Human Essentially Just Different Might Human History Certain Planets Special Each

To me, movies is just scratching the surface for the work. There are people who are so, so great at that. Paula Malcomson

Work Great Me People Surface Scratching Just Movies Who

I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships. Peggy Johnson

Surface Ships Warfare Worked

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid. Pete Sampras

Kid Wimbledon Guy Uncomfortable Like Felt Surface Just Loved Meant

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game? Peter Senge

You Game Recycling Profit Economic Stuff New Economy Underground Make Ball Ball Game How Surface Up Junk Ends Literally Interested Create CO2 Really Creates Whole Waste Growth Bring Players

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. Piet Mondrian

Matter Spirit Laws Also Surface Closer Which Turning Inner

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands. Ramez Naam

Food Humanity Other Else Once Earth Has-Been More Area Environment Surface Affected Been Forest Than Any Anything Anything Else Which Converted Land Much Lands Engaged Production Farms Roughly Activity Humans Grazing Third

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