(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned. I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.)

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Circle Game,'This is a Photograph of Me'.

Remember that a paintingöbefore it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or someanecdoteöis essentiallya flat surface covered with colours assembled ina certainorder.

-Deniehy, Daniel Henry
  The¤  ories:1890^1910.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, prologue.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

-Gerhardie,William Alexander
  Polyglots, ch.14.

There is no manner of doubt that a town surrounded by water is a very fine sight; but a town surrounded by land is much finer.Can there be any comparison in point of beauty, between the dull monotony of a watery surface, and the delightful variety of gardens, meadows, hills and woods ?

-Moore,John
c.1780  A View of Society and Manners in Italy.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

-Pirsig, Robert M(aynard)
  Zen and theArt of Motorcycle Maintenance, pt.3, ch.26.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  The Problems of Philosophy, ch.1.

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Brobdingnag', ch.6.

That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

-Wordsworth,William
  'So fair so sweet', stanza 2 (published1845).