God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.
Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful. ' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting. '
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.
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning. ' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.
The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.
Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.
The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.
Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Most art is just surface noise.