Scratch The Surface Quotes

#1. Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.

Gianna Carini

#2. Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

Eoin Colfer

#3. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Peter M. Senge

#4. Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

Michael Fassbender

#5. It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

Ibrahim Hooper

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

Bear Grylls

#7. Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

Peace Pilgrim

#8. There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface.

Michelle Ryan

#9. 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

#10. I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#11. You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Blake Lively

#12. Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get.

Laura Kasischke

#13. After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mel Gibson

#14. I mean, as you start to scratch the surface - and that's what I think the intent of these films are. Here's a little bit of something if you're interested go read about it and it's a little bit more fascinating. It kind of is.

Chris Henchy

#15. Do you realize i havent even begun to scratch the surface of the things i want to do to you?

Meredith Wild

#16. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.

Glen Duncan

#17. History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it starts to become more and more complicated, which is not the stuff of Hollywood films. Complications tend to break down the budget.

Christopher McQuarrie

#18. Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

Nina Easton

#19. Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.

Chris Hedges

#20. 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.

Jack Canfield

#21. ... then she was Sophie Black, the girl who surprised him. He'd never met anyone quite like her before. On first glance she was quiet and unassuming, but scratch the surface and she was spectacular.

Kitty French

#22. The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

Rick Atkinson

#23. Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Alan Kay

#24. Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.

Milton Friedman

#25. Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

Chet Raymo

#26. Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

#27. Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere crust on her limbs, anything to get something bright and liquid flowing again, out in the open and slippery between our fingers.

Lionel Shriver

#28. Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Joko Beck

#29. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

Ray Davies

#30. He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust

J.M. Coetzee

#31. If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Nick Clegg

#32. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

John Fowles

#33. The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

Jack Horner