Surface Theme Quotes

#1. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

Miguel Ruiz

#2. If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

#3. I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

Anne Lamott

#4. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.

Joseph Altuzarra

#5. Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true

E. E. Cummings

#6. My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

Elizabeth Banks

#7. Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends.

William Davenant

#8. You are not capable of insulting, even in thought, her who so loved and so loves you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky