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Quotes About Concealment

Most people aren't going to want to admit that the monsters in this case not only look human but are human.
~ Anne Bishop
Facts are bigger in the dark.
~ Anne Carson
Far below were the limestone flats they called the Flaggy Shore; grey rocks under a grey sky, and there were days when the sea was a glittering grey and your eyes could not tell if it was dusk or dawn, your eyes were always adjusting. It was like the rocks took the light and hid it away. And that was the thing about Boolavaun, it was a place that made itself hard to see.
~ Anne Enright
Ici, je me cache quand je veux. Je puis me cacher des jours et des jours, sans qu'on sache si j'existe ou non, et, sans que je le sache bien moi-même. Je m'enferme là-haut. Je lis, je dors, je rêve. Je ne bouge plus.
~ Anne Hebert
Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.
~ Anne Nesbet
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
~ Anne Perry
I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.
~ Anne Rampling
He wanted to leave his mom and her unseeing eyes. He was the invisible boy looking for the place where no one could find him, where he did not have to feel invisible anymore.
~ Anne Ursu
Now she would be part girl, part hardening gray sludge. And no one would notice the difference.
~ Anne Ursu
Ver a una mujer: solo por un segundo, solo por el breve lapso de una mirada, para luego volver a perderla, en la oscuridad de un pasillo, tras una puerta que me está vedado abrir...
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
To convey my predicament, I never resorted to descriptive terms or expressions such as "I'm expecting," "pregnant" or "pregnancy." They endorsed a future event that would never materialize. There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of. In my diary I would write, "it" or "that thing," only once "pregnant.
~ Annie Ernaux
À un moment, je lui ai dit sous une forme détournée que j'étais enceinte, sans doute parce que je pensais qu'il pourrait m'aider.
~ Annie Ernaux
Little birds of thought die in her throat.
~ Annie G. Rogers
As a private person, professionally I am invisible.
~ Michael Haneke
Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.
~ Neal Adams
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
~ Ann-Margret
There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.
~ Simon Pegg
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
~ James Lasdun
I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
~ Rick Springfield
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
~ Matt Bomer
Especially in our industry, everything is so prim and proper; you'll never really see anyone show their sad side, because everyone wants to be perfect.
~ Big Narstie
It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
~ Edd Byrnes
I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.
~ Liu Bolin