Quotes About Concealment

The names expose the namer more than they limn what's caught the eye.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

You think we're hiding our secret mastery of the galaxy. In reality, we're hiding something else. Something much worse.

Yeah, it's a cover-up," Nixon said. "The cover-up is worse than whatever comes out. It really is—unless somebody is going to jail.

Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.

Ma che faccia che hai, sembri uno che ha un urgente bisogno di essere sepolto.

You want to kill a place, name it. A name only draws the people there who will kill it again. They slice it up or tear it down; they rape the women, burn everyone on pyres, and then, thinking they own it, they name it again. Stupid. Enough to know 'there is a hill and good water, a cross in the road and a strong oak tree.' But do not say it out loud. A home should always stay secret or someone will come to steal it.

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

young Harry was known to his mother's staff as a contrarian who did the opposite of what he was told. As he grew up he became increasingly undisciplined. His father and his wider family watched helplessly as the boy refused to behave and rejected education. After he unsuccessfully tried to pass his entrance exam to Eton, his relations recognised that Harry's ignorance was spilling over into arrogance. That reality was concealed during Diana's funeral.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Bodyguards offer fake security. The real security comes from having your enemies know nothing about you.

Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.