Surface Quotes

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Vanity is but the surface.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

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

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.