On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.
History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.
Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.
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.
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.