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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
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.
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
And all your future lies beneath your hat.
The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.
I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education,
But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.
Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
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.
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.
I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.
Twentysomethings thank me for their childhood... SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the sea, but he brings a lot of great stuff to the surface.
Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my intelligence. I even had a teacher tell me my life was ruined.
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.
Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
One family--we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.
Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.
Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.
To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
