Surface Detail Quotes

#1. Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Russell Smith

#2. The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

Albert Pinkham Ryder

#3. The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Donald Miller

#4. We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

Dallin H. Oaks

#5. I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Edward E. Barnard

#6. We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

Pope Francis

#7. At first, he only continues walking. Only when I look down on our feet do I realize that we're actually going nowhere. It's the world that moves - the streets, the air, and the dark patches of inner sky.

Markus Zusak

#8. Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing -Eva Nine

Tony DiTerlizzi

#9. If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.

Curtis Jackson

#10. There are no answers, only cross references

Norbert Wiener

#11. Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

Paulo Coelho

#12. There are moments in life when we need to trust blindly in intuition

Paulo Coelho

#13. The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.

Charles Stross

#14. I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Corra May Harris

#15. The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

H.L. Mencken