#surface

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. ↗

— Andre Gide

#die #falling #fish #rise #surface

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. ↗

— Guy Hamilton

#could #disappear #dive #earth #happen

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#almost #appears #bird #closer #feel

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#entirely #execution #grain #handling #master

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#style #subject #substance #surface #unceasingly

Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#both #both sides #committed #ever #fair

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. ↗

— Rudolf Carnap

#everywhere #science #surface

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#brave men #men #middle #softness #surface

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#bits #bits and pieces #black #cotton #flung