Flexure Surface Quotes

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. ~ William Shakespeare

Many fires burn below the surface. ~ Empedocles

People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played. ~ Abby Wambach

It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside. ~ Lisette Model

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly. ~ Richard Avedon

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface ... ~ Charles Stross

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes. ~ John Singer Sargent

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. ~ Jeanne Moreau

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. ~ Meredith Hall

Death is always there, just beneath the surface. ~ Mason Cooley

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man ~ Jules Verne

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. ~ Steven Pinker

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit. ~ Donald E. Brownlee

She had never looked to see what lay beneath the surface, because the surface was easy enough to polish and keep bright. ~ Kate Elliott

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface. ~ Marcia Cross

She was a surface creature where surface creatures had no business being, and it delighted her. ~ Mira Grant

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world. ~ Paul Cezanne

ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib. ~ Samuel Johnson

You can't be deep without a surface ~ Jonathan Lethem

The surface is all you get of me. ~ Gary Hume

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface. ~ Nikki Sixx

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface. ~ Stephen Sondheim

When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface. ~ Jules Olitski

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

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible. ~ Italo Calvino

The global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. ~ James Hansen

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface. ~ Roald Dahl

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ~ Johannes Stark

Thought's surface: word.
Word's surface: gesture.
Gesture's surface: skin.
Skin's surface: shiver. ~ Vera Pavlova

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation. ~ John Dieterich

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all. ~ Cathy Davidson

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. ~ Richard Ellmann

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. ~ Felix Buxton

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface. ~ Jodi Picoult

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room. ~ Albert Hadley

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. ~ Dolly Parton

I am alone on the surface of a turning planet. ~ R.S. Thomas

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. ~ Andy Warhol

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. ~ Ashly Lorenzana

What was once underground is now coming to the surface. ~ Gavin Bryars

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck
paddling, paddling, paddling. ~ Scott Stossel

Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture. ~ Nick Cave

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

Language is froth on the surface of thought. ~ John McCarthy

Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. ~ Dave Barry

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. ~ David O. Russell

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside. ~ David Lynch

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface. ~ James Nicoll

There's such a huge world out there; I haven't even begun to scratch the surface. ~ Michelle Ryan

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium. ~ Olivia Colman

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface. ~ Johnny Rich

Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world. ~ Simon McBurney

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. ~ Woody Allen

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. ~ Carl Jung

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. ~ Samuel Beckett

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface. ~ Adyashanti

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. ~ Helen Frankenthaler

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface ~ Philip Roth

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. ~ Tom Allen

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation. ~ Margaret Halsey

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land. ~ Susan George

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface. ~ Jeanloup Sieff

Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. ~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth. ~ Joshua Ferris

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling. ~ Andre Gide

Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ~ Tillie Olsen

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface. ~ Georg Baselitz

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again - but it finds a tougher surface. ~ Willa Cather

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings. ~ Geri Halliwell

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course. ~ Alexander Ahndoril

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . ~ Aldous Huxley

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ~ Robert Duncan

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get. ~ Laura Kasischke

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface. ~ Howard Zinn

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface. ~ Zach Woods

When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. ~ Janet Maslin

My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s. ~ Ellen Stofan

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference. ~ Marvin J. Ashton

I am not what i seem
look past my surface and
you might scream ~ Anastasia Wild

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ~ Randolph Bourne

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies. ~ Beatrice Webb

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness. ~ Laozi

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. ~ Roger McDonald

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars. ~ Ellen Stofan

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. ~ Tracey Ullman

The last thing to collapse is the surface. ~ Albert Einstein

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. ~ Georges Seurat

I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves. ~ Jennifer Garner

Before us the thick dark current runs. It talks up to us in a murmur become ceaseless and myriad, the yellow surface dimpled monstrously into fading swirls travelling along the surface for an instant, silent, impermanent and profoundly significant, as though just beneath the surface something huge and alive waked for a moment of lazy alertness out of and into light slumber again. ~ William Faulkner

A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Vanity is but the surface. ~ Blaise Pascal

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates. ~ Paolo Giordano