Playing Surface

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or surface:

    “A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a case-knife—or any thing you please—than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)