Quotes About Concealment

But every longtime cop will tell you that the criminals who scared him most were the ones who looked and talked like the rest of us and committed deeds that no one, absolutely no one, ever wants to have knowledge of.

I want to do it too! (sitting motionless) Nudge: Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church. Max: (muttering) Appropriately enough. Iggy: What about me? (stands still) Max: No, you're visible. Iggy: Am not! Max: (throws a pinecone at him) Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?

The truth has always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass.

some with plywood hiding his name.

bottom drawer and pried up the drawer's false bottom. She held

No one had figured out any of the other murders he'd done, had they? They got John Wayne Gacy, Jr., after over thirty murders in Chitown. Jeffrey Dahmer went down after seventeen in Milwaukee. Gary had murdered more than both of them put together. But no one knew who he was, or where he was, or what he planned to do next.

I may have been dressed as a falcon, but I'll tell you what. I felt like the biggest

He removes one hand from the binoculars, checks the lumpy shape under his blanket, resting on his lap. It's his backup weapon from when he was on the job, a .38 Smith & Wesson Police Special. Ronald nods

Most of us tried to keep our problems as private as we could, guarding those scary parts of ourselves like they were a treasure instead of a curse.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people: young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

Things that are unknown attract us.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.