Quotes About Camouflage

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Authoritarian, secretive, sometimes grandiose, and even paranoid, the perpetrator is nevertheless exquisitely sensitive to the realities of power and to social norms. Only rarely does he get into difficulties with the law; rather, he seeks out situations where his tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired. His demeanor provides an excellent camouflage, for few people believe that extraordinary crimes can be committed by men of such conventional appearance.

Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.

Bill had always been a placid pond of a friend with a few boulders of madness lurking beneath the surface, but unlike me he knew how to keep the jagged edges out of sight.

When I wink at him, his eyebrows jump high. "We should cut him up," Camouflage One says. "Cut him into little pieces." I feign being startled and turn toward him. "Oh my, I didn't see you there." "What?" "In those camouflage pants. You really blend in. By the way, they are very fetching on you." "Are you some kind of wiseguy?" "I'm many kinds of wiseguy." All the smiles, including mine, grow. They

Don't get me wrong: not all camo is trendy or cute. The right camo and camo shades, though... perfection.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

Yo formaba parte de ellos. Llevaba su uniforme. Sin embargo, nadie sabía que yo era uno de ellos sólo para esconderme de ellos. Dentro de sus filas estaba seguro.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

Thieves like us were used a great deal during this war. We were legitimized. We stole. Then some of us began to advise. We could read through the camouflage of deceit more naturally than official intelligence. We created double bluffs. Whole campaigns were being run by this mixture of crooks and intellectuals.

How long can you gloss everything over and give people the idea that life is a sitcom?

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

camouflage (rather oddly from camouflet, meaning "to blow smoke up someone's nose," a pastime that appears on the linguistic evidence to be specific to the French)

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

How tired she must be, I thought, after her rich, full life—a life lived between worlds. She had known the sea's wild embrace; she had mastered the art of camouflage; she had learned the taste of our skin and the shapes of our faces; she had instinctively remembered how her ancestors wove eggs into chains. She had served as an ambassador for her kind to tens of thousands of aquarium visitors. What an odyssey she had lived.

Beneath the appearance of normality he is strong as Goliath, scaly and supple as a serpent.

Now, Stuart, as you will discover if you have not done so already, believes that the principal raison d'etre of food is to conceal from public view the hideous pattern on the plate beneath.

I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.

I want to be invisible.

I wish someone would discover a way to become invisible.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

As the animal trundled toward him, Seth backed away. Weren't animals supposed to flee from humans? Maybe it had rabies. Or maybe it just hadn't seen him. After all, he was wearing a camouflage shirt.