Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one
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AKIRA MIZUTA LIPPIT Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the ab...
MAX BECKMANN The Truth Must Surface.
JANA K ALEXANDER There may be deep thought, but deep people don’t exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, othe...
ANTHONY MARAIS To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads fur...
AMANDA CRAIG It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the su...
WALTER RUDOLF HESS I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a ...
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KARL ROVE She looked to be in top form. She looked like she was back to where Pam Dreyer should be on the dept...
BEN SMITH Love cannot be found where it doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
RANA MAGDY We must be careful to avoid any unintended consequences that may be hidden in the administration's p...
JOHN DINGELL In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This...
G. WILLOW WILSON Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU True love cannot be found where it truly doesn't exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
ROY CROFT Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez.
BILL NELSON True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it does.
UNKNOWN Human kind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence. Hatred can be overcome only by love....
MOHANDAS GANDHI It's a borderline civil case. I can't say where it's going to go but, on the surface, there does see...
DAVE BRISTOW She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
CINDY SHEEHAN Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE Those who have trusted where they ought not,
will surely mistrust where they ought not."
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ALEATHA ROMIG What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle sm...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the no...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES Past relationships are a loss, so we have to deal with them like loss. We must fully grieve. We must...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that w...
STEWART STAFFORD It’s an enemy that I can’t allow to wound me a second time. It’s already done enough damage: m...
ANDREA PIRLO In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet o...
CHARLES LYELL Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get ...
MICKEY SPILLANE All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidd...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI There's a difference between depth and quality depth, and Josh would be quality depth. We want to ha...
DAN O'DOWD To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
ANNE PARILLAUD Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.
JODI PICOULT When they're on battery, they're incredibly difficult to find, ... So, unless you know where they ar...
BILL MURRAY Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY The GPS will get visitors within a few feet of the hidden treasure, but from there they have to figu...
HERB HANDLY Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetr...
ISAAC WATTS Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penet...
ISAAC WATTS An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.
JODI PICOULT Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Hugo, nothing can stop you now,
FIDEL CASTRO I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of ou...
WALTER HOUSER BRATTAIN Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield...
BARBARA HEPWORTH Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit.
RICK YANCEY Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help...
SETH GODIN On the surface, it does appear to be a problematic issue for Mr. Wilson.
CARLO LOPARO Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must b...
J.K. ROWLING You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only becau...
UMBERTO ECO Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
IRVINE WELSH this summit, is not about Hugo Chavez.
STEPHEN HADLEY Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE That's one place where we don't have a lot of depth.
BOBBY CROCKETT Last season was just scratching the surface of where we need to be. I've done a 180 with this progra...
DAMON COUPE Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY Why do you like jellyfish so much?" I asked.
"I don't know. I guess I think they're cute," she...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man
ROBERT BURNS Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I...
JEREMY SPENCER Rafael Chaves called me, but not Hugo Chavez.
FELIX HERNANDEZ Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen ...
ARISTOTLE Live fully and without fear
RICK RIORDAN APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH
"You are gorgeous and people love you!
RICK RIORDAN When I finally saw the surface of the water, the course turned out to be right on,
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VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Take the time to look inside someone and you will find much more than what lies on the surface. Ther...
STACY MADDOX I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW 'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.
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DONALD BROWNLEE I felt some intense pain during that time, and I would say that is where the depth of this came. You...
BRIAN CROSBY This is not a Hugo, but it's pretty rough,
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KYLE BELL Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on thin...
RICKI-LEE COULTER The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the...
IVAN PAVLOV Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
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VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
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A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
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VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
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Who b...
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VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
F...
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VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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HUGO CHAVEZ I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
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VICTOR HUGO