It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
Charles A. Jaffe
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don`t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
Nicolas Cage
You can scratch the surface of my songs pretty lightly and you`ll find someone who wanted to be James Taylor at the age of 14. He`s also a brilliant and ridiculously underrated guitar player and blessed with a voice that could melt ice caps.
Sting
[on Humphrey Bogart] It took a little while to realize that he had perfected an elaborate camouflage to cover up one of the kindest and most generous of hearts. Even so, he was no soft touch and before you were allowed to peek beneath the surface and catc...
David Niven
I`ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don`t understand what the hell is going on. I`ve no desire at all to go back there.
Ben Whishaw
Charlie was a 45-year-old rocker who had been spat out the other side - they were looking at someone like John Hannah. My pitch was, `Wouldn`t it be a more interesting character if he was someone who has barely scratched the surface of what he could be?` ...
Dominic Monaghan
About "Twin Peaks" (1990) - "I think it`s just basically that on the surface things seem all one way, this nice little small town. But underneath there`s a lot of dirt and a lot of sadness and deprivation. Two girls in plaid skirts and sweaters, smoking c...
Sherilyn Fenn
I never feel I am playing characters. I play certain states, certain ranges of emotions, certain feelings. The contours of a character are something very vague. Initially, when I read a script, I have certain pieces or images that come up to the surface. ...
Isabelle Huppert
I`m just starting to scratch the surface of what makes me happy, and it has taken me a while to admit that acting like a child and a jerk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio
You get the family together that hasn`t been together and there`s drinking. Tempers can flair and old issues can come to the surface - old grievances, old axes-to-grind.
John Young
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
With development, you get impervious surfaces like pavement and roofs of houses, ... This really relates to water quality because it increases the speed in which surface water (containing sediment) runs off and gets into the waterways.
Arthur Calwell
While on the surface all may appear to be well in these schools, if we dig deeper we find that achievement could be better in some subjects, or for some groups of pupils, and that these schools are falling way behind in terms of providing the sort of educ...
David Ball
What`s nice about him is that he has more confidence in swallowing a pebble and letting the ripples play on the surface, than in making a big splash. He`s working less externally. His greatest moments are when he`s not even aware of what`s registering on ...
Gore Verbinski
What was exciting was to really go beneath the surface and see what makes a person insulting, mean and abusive... especially to ones own child.
Christine Lahti
What this tells us is that if you`re building nanostructures, the surface is really important. If you make silicon half as thick, you would expect it to conduct half as well. But it turns out that silicon conducts much worse than that if the surface is po...
Paul Evans
What this tells us is that if you`re building nanostructures, the surface is really important. If you make silicon half as thick, you would expect it to conduct half as well. But it turns out that silicon conducts much worse than that if the surface is po...
Paul Evans
We plan six wells at present, but if successful, we will attempt to extend the drilling contract and drill one or more sidetracks from each surface location to establish the reserves of each prospect area such that additional platforms can be designed and...
Chris Gibson
We have a lot of improving to do. We haven`t even scratched the surface of what this team can accomplish. It`s a great win. Great to be 1-0, but we have 15 more rounds to go and Seattle is staring us in the face.
Arthur Weigall
We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn`t have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.
Mark Foster
We didn`t feel the Dimond field offered the best playable surface. When we took a look at the different venues and options, AFS was the best way to go.
Derek Brewer
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
