#surface

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. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#guy #i #just #kid #like

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. ↗

— William Scott

#am #concerned #expectation #flat #i

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#around #best #could #did #how

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making. ↗

— John Sexton

#i think #image #making #more #never

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#another #everybody #exploring #feel #give

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#cleaner #extent #great #great extent #had

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#complete #despotism #more #move #move on

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#common #corresponding #different #different elements #effect

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course