Beneath The Surface Quotes - Page 2

• There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

  Arianna Huffington

  Love, Kids, Literature

  "Arianna Huffington's Best Advice". www.harpersbazaar.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work
  is new, complex, and vital.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Diversity, Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.8, Prestwick House Inc

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• I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

  Sarah Monette

  Dream, Water, Gold

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• I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Surface, Neurotic

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• The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Cities, People, Monsters

  "Q&A: Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

  Mason Cooley

  Death, Surface

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• I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.

  Allan Moyle

  Psychics, Surface, Happenings

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, nor leaped as many above it. We know not where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Feet, Sound, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Forever, Touching

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Mirrors, Diversity

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• ...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Light, Sea, Water

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• Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

  John Zerzan

  Everyday Routine, Void, Anarchy

  "Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.

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• By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.

  Debbie Ford

  Psychics, Energy, Huge

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Trying

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• As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.

  Derek Rydall

  Running, Stronger, Depth

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• Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.

  Sarah Dessen

  Energy, Molecules, Pushing

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• Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Beautiful, Dog

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• Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Long, Noise

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• Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Class, Creative

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books

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• The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Water, Calm

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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, Surface, My Own

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• It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

  Mehmet Oz

  Ocean, Water, Meditation

  "Look Who’s Meditating Now" By Irina Aleksander, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2011.

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• It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  People, Giving, Personality

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Sanity, Knows, Fragile

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