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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message.
A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.
Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.
I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.
We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
Red velvet cake is my absolute favorite. It has to be an actual slice of cake, not a cupcake; there's more surface area, so the icing ratio is higher.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the 'Kante-facts.' It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover 30 per cent of the surface of the earth.
Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.
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.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.