Quotes About Camouflage

Con el tiempo, comprendí que aquel era un planeta de cosas envueltas dentro de cosas: comida dentro de envoltorios, cuerpos dentro de ropas, odio dentro de sonrisas. Todo se escondía.

It has always been easy to hide violence with declarations of peace.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

Die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise die glaubt niemand.

That's what people never understand: They see us hard little pretty things, brightly lacquered and sequin-studded, and they laugh, they mock, they arouse themselves. They miss everything. You see, these glitters and sparkle dusts and magicks? It's war paint, it's feather and claws, it's blood sacrifice.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

enemies on the bottoms of leaves. That's where

hornworm's rear "horn" looks frightening. This caterpillar rears its head back as if

What It Looks Like The cabbage caterpillar is green or tan. Its skinny body

Looks Like This plump green caterpillar has two large black and yellow "eyes" staring out of its bulging head. They are not eyes that see, but "eyespots.

Você devia ser como esses passaritos que vivem nas costas do hipopótamo: ser precisado pelos grandes, mas não ser visto por ninguém.

A primavera cabe dentro do grilo. Cigarras se alfabetizam de silêncios. No liso da parede, a osga se prepara para transparências, adquire a forma do nada. Enquanto o ramo vai transitando para camaleão.

Cruelty lurks in our instincts, and fanaticism is a camouflage for cruelty. Fanatics are seldom genuinely humane, and those who sincerely dread cruelty will be slow to adopt a fanatical creed. . . .

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

he was the clean wrapper for a filthy deed.

I laughed because, as everyone knows, laughing is a great way to disguise heavy breathing.

Hidden in the leafy canopy, sometimes she stayed so still and quiet even the birds forgot she was there.

Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.

The sole task of the Birkenau personnel was to camouflage the real reason for the camp: extermination. When the internees in Auschwitz, or in other camps in the area, were no longer judged useful, they were dispatched to Birkenau to die in the ovens. It was as simple and cold-blooded as that.

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

He is very good at blending in, my father-in-law. But don't mistake him for anything but a ruthless bastard.

Bobcat?" he says. "What bobcat?

Hay hombres que entran aquí, sonrientes, con los zapatos muy limpios y los calcetines empolvados. Pero cuando se descalzan, sus pies huelen a rayos. Esas son las personas que ocultan cosas. Tienen secretos apestosos e intentan ocultarlos, como intentan ocultar el hedor de sus pies.