#surface

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#matter #number #seem #stories #subject

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #book #exposed #figure #find

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting. ↗

— Jana Novotna

#fun #game #interesting #kind #make

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well. ↗

— Anne Parillaud

#i #insecure #know #look #me

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? ↗

— Anne Parillaud

#happy #purpose #surface

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#about #after #anything #beautiful #because

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#barren #beneath #difficult #exists #immediately

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#hear #i #like #neurotic #people

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#become #drum #explore #fact #in fact