Surface Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

  Beah Richards

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Destiny, Order

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• I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

  Ratan Tata

  Successful, Twists, Clean

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• As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

  Amy Waldman

  Character, Trying, Novelists

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• The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Personality

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• The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Play, Wave

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Future, Men

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