Quotes About Concealment

Rendez-moi les cahiers. Je vais les enterrer quelque part dans la forêt. — Oui, enterrez-les. Ou, mieux encore, brûlez-les. C'est la seule solution pour que personne ne puisse les lire.

Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

i am walking in the rain because no body can see my tear.

Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: HIDE the corpse, DON'T bare your heart, DO make assumptions about the motives of others.

This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you.

When she walked away I felt the weight of what she left unsaid. I wanted to call after her, Ma! You have it all wrong. But just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you. I

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

When she walked away I felt the weight of what she left unsaid. I wanted to call after her, Ma! You have it all wrong. But just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you.

just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly doing all these things to you. I

It's okay if you can't make sense of that. I've tried and tried, but I can't grasp it, either. The most vital things we hide even from ourselves.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand - fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated - in an effort to keep my mother's secret buried.

A buried truth, that's all a lie really is.

The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.