
Top 29 Quotes About What Lies Beneath The Surface
#1. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.
Paula Hawkins
#2. 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
#3. Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
Alan Hirsch
#4. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That
Connor Franta
#5. Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.
Jodi Picoult
#6. A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.
Thomas Pynchon
#7. We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.
Gene Luen Yang
#8. Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.
Dylan Smith
#9. I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring.
W.S. Merwin
#10. In Japanese, koi no yokan means the ineluctable feeling you have, upon meeting someone for the first time, that eventually the two of you will fall in love.
Alena Graedon
#11. A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters.
Brent Weeks
#12. Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.
Kofi Annan
#13. How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
E. M. Forster
#14. What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Hermann Hesse
#15. A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.
Kathleen Norris
#16. We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks ... damsels.
Nenia Campbell
#17. Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
Sharon Bolton
#18. Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.
Helmut Schmidt
#19. It was then that I came to an important realization:as long as someone is beautiful,thin,wealthy,fun-loving or talented,we are happy to accept him or her at face value.We are not ever taught to look for-or care about-what lies beneath the surface.
Na'ima B. Robert
#20. People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.
Mamoru Hosoda
#21. We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.
Robert Edmond Jones
#22. What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.
Jeyn Roberts
#23. Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
Tom Allen
#25. The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
Meredith Hall
#26. Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask ... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
William Merritt Chase
#27. We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.
RuPaul
#28. The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.
Kamil Ali
#29. She reads, and I read her. And that's how I spend the next few weeks. Each day, she speaks a few more words to me, and each day I find myself caring more than I should.
Jay McLean
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