“We'll slide down the surface of things…”

“Because these things
Will change.
We can see it now.
These walls
That they put up,
To hold us back
Will fall down.
It's a revolution,
It's how we'll become.
Who we're
Supposed to be.
We'll sing hallelujah;
We'll sing hallelujah.
Oh.”

Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter

“Awl human happiness is conservatiff; 2 thirds ov the pleasure in sliding down hill consists in drawing the sled back. I don't serpoze thare would be enny fun in sliding down a hill 34 miles long.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

“The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.”

Leo Strauss book Thoughts on Machiavelli

“If we can stand up
When all else falls down,
We'll last through the winter.
We'll last through the storms.
We'll last through the north winds
That bring down the ice and snow.
We'll last through the long nights
Till the green field's growing again.
Growing again.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

“We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue,
And then we'll take it higher.”

Eddy Grant (1948) Guyana born British reggae musician

“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow