Quotes About Concealment

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

You can't hit what you can't see.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal.

Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.

I had my share of fun,' I said. 'Looks and money get you a long way in Wind Gap.' 'And brains?' 'Brains you hide.

I made a mental note to take a smiling, pretty photo of myself in case I ever disappeared.

you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.

rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

You're still desperate to have everyone think you're perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.

I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.