#surface

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

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#away #beneath #calm #crazy #duck

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. ↗

— Christian Slater

#between #bit #done #films #i

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 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

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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

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface. ↗

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#hidden #must #surface #where

That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#approach #attention #externals #helped #improvements