Quotes About Concealment

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation, unity of design

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

And if the common people ever realise that vampires exist, it will be a very short time indeed before naked noonday identity parades are required by law.

Nor can I tell him—lest the SA's command override cause my arterial blood vessels to burst and my eyeballs to catch fire—about Long-Term Continuity Operations and the Resistance.

where it's not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can remember their names.

The vampire has just realized she's in a meeting populated exclusively by spooks and people who go bump in the night.

a man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn't have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.

her Jonquil overlay

Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.

and left his bicycle well hidden behind the stone wall

two by six Joyce below the floor boards.

But knowing or not knowing does not save us from being known

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

It's probably a lot cooler than wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Once I put on the mask, I don't even realize that it's there. They're molded off of our faces, so they fit really well.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

He tried to live before her in armor. He showed off before her. Perhaps, he thought, if he were splendid enough, she would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.

They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture.

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it.

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it. They found jokes to tell. They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness.

You can hide in someone else's rage - it blinds them