“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”

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

“Get me a drink of water, please, and something to quiet my belly. It’s rumbling so much I can’t hear myself think.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

“Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato’s Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.”

“Once more I hear the everlasting sea
Breathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“Beneath the noise, below the din,
I hear a voice, it's whispering,
"In science and in medicine,
"I was a stranger, you took me in."”

“Never leap into a lake without knowing what’s beneath the surface.”

“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”