Quotes About Concealment

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Subira o Evereste e alcançara o cume, com sucesso, sem que ninguém soubesse.

Everyone in the Hall knows what's really happening, but as long as it looks as if everything is in order, nobody will object.

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior.

The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding? Though some citizens and commentators objected on grounds of privacy, asserting that government, at virtually every level, had always needed to do some things in private for the sake of security and efficiency, the momentum crushed all such arguments and the progression continued. If you weren't operating in the light of day, what were you doing in the shadows?

But in the end, you can't kill what you can't see coming . . .

We have not one but two killers. And as implausible as it sounds, I don't think either one knew about the other.

Assassins tended to favor bulky clothing and small handguns.

Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.

both because of the cold and also to help hide his face.

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

This guy had taken great care to not allow even a piece of his skin to be observed. They didn't even know if he was black or white. Although most mass murderers were white. And male.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it's interesting.

What you do is you hide your deep need to hide, and you do this out of the need to appear to other people as if you have the strength not to care how you appear to others.

Now a second-order vain person is a vain person who's also vain about appearing to have an utter lack of vanity. Who's enormously afraid that other people will perceive him as vain. A second-order vain person will sit up late learning jokes in order to appear funny and charming, but will deny that he sits up late learning jokes. Or he'll perhaps even try to give the impression that he doesn't regard himself as funny at all.

Two clocks, two ghosts, one square acre of hidden mirror.