Quotes About Evasive

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

He would deny this is confronted, citing evasively his affection for Dante and Giotto, but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.

Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.

I watched that film the other night and it embarrassed me. So dated, so coy, so evasively homosexual only a fellow homosexual might recognize the subtext.

Play dead often and long enough and people begin to think you are.

she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost

Although scientific method is different from mythology -- its assertions are conditional, self-limited, and subject to disproof —- "science" as a concept may be used in an ideological and a mythological way, evasive of questions and disproofs.

surely you're enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

D?vains v?rietis… K? zivs… Kas vienm?r aizlok?s un izsl?d no rok?m…

Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him. "Not seriously." "Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?" "Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.

I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

I've never kissed anyone who talked so much about kissing," I told him. Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inscrutable and generally send mixed messages.

AMBAGES  (AMBA'GES)   n.s.[Lat.]A circuit of words; a circumlocutory form of speech; a multiplicity of words; an indirect manner of expression.

I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.

A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.

Asked about my technique, I grow evasive. I'm not aware I have any.

The Evasive Cartwheel â"¢ © etc., Bartimaeus of Uruk, circa. 2800 B.C.E. Often imitated, never surpassed. As famously memorialized in the New Kingdom tomb paintings of Ramses III— you can just see me in the background of The Dedication of the Royal Family before Ra, wheeling out of sight behind the pharaoh.

he was graciously evasive and said he wasn't certain he would have done anything different and that I was "doing an excellent job.

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand.

Is she always elusive?" "Her whole life's a no-show.