Quotes About Concealment

I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

I've always controlled my emotions. I think that probably came from playing a lot of tennis, keeping it inside and not letting the opponent see what's going on with you. I think it gives them an advantage when you do that.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.

Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides. —André Malraux

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.

Master-meaning! Concealed revealment! I spent my twenties wanting to be Lévi-Strauss – which is ironic, since he spent most of his life wanting to be somebody or something else: a philosopher, say, or novelist, or poet.

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.

O segredo que não contei a meu pai foi o segredo que escondi a mim mesma. Minha mãe sabia. O único medo que ele tinha era que ela descobrisse. Assim, esse foi o dia em que nosso jogo começou.

It was important not to show any emotion. But I felt hollow, like if you blew across my lips I would sound a note, deep and low.

Captain,' he said. Largo looked up. 'Johnson had trouble with that lost fifty minutes at the airplane. Do you?' 'I don't think so,' Largo said. His expression was totally neutral. 'I know something Johnson doesn't.' He held up the folder. 'I know how slow you work.

Ah, Rosellini, el médico guapo y serio que se había enamorado perdidamente de ella y no se atrevía a decir con los labios lo que proclamaban a gritos sus ojos!

Hay aquí un individuo que, si hablo, me robaría los pensamientos.

It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.

Ni vet ju att folk blir osynliga om man skrämmer dom för ofta...

This wasn't at all what I wanted to talk about, which is this: How did the rabbits get all covered with flowers?" "Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know." "Exactly," said Anna. "You're right. That's the best thing you've said tonight. They don't need to know, and I don't want to know. So there!