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Quotes About Camouflage

Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.
~ Ned Vizzini
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
~ Chuck Jones
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Above all other things, GhostWalkers were enhanced to be able to disappear into the night, fade into darkness and remain undetected by an enemy no matter how close they got to him- or her.
~ Christine Feehan
In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.
~ Christopher Isherwood
What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?
~ Umberto Eco
The Germans have a poem to the effect that when you hear singing you may lie down in peace, for evil men have no songs. The Nazis were using this as one more camouflage, but for Lanny tonight it held good.
~ Upton Sinclair
Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
~ Victor Hugo
flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair
~ Victor Hugo
She was like one of those animals whose defense mechanism is to blend into the landscape and become invisible. It was her way of dealing with rejection: Say nothing and disappear. Never fight back. If she remained quiet enough, people eventually forgot she was there and left her alone.
~ Kristin Hannah
She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago.
~ Kristin Hannah
One of the best ways to disappear in plain sight was to dress like a wren - brown, brown, and more brown.
~ Kristin Hannah
If I don't want to be seen, you don't see me.
~ L. J. Smith
If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
~ Cate Tiernan
One of the ways unconscious drives sneak into the conscious mind is through dreams, with the unconscious material camouflaged by symbols. But Freud argues that if you interpret and free-associate to these symbols, it's possible to figure out what the unconscious is trying to impart. If the dream is too well camouflaged, the meaning may be lost; if it's not camouflaged enough, it will be a nightmare.
~ Catherine Gildiner
others to cover the signs of our
~ Geraldine Brooks
So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.
~ Gloria Miklowitz
Méringue covers a multitude of sins.
~ Joe Perkins, 1886
He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge.
~ James Ellroy
The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.
~ Jen Lancaster
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
~ Sylvia Plath
If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.
~ Johnny Carson
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
~ Thomas Dekker