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Quotes About Camouflaged

Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background of common sense.
~ Richard Dawkins
The best director is the one you don't see.
~ Billy Wilder
They came silently as ghosts themselves, swept along like leaves being scattered about them in the scurrying east wind. Yet their running forms seemed carved out by the wild landscape, in the natural facts of evolution, so they were almost perfectly camouflaged, shielded by the deepening colors of autumn change.
~ David Clement-Davies
Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.
~ David Deutsch
More often than not, DID is dissimulated and camouflaged, so it is important to understand that, although its processes and structures may be active and powerful, its manifestations may be subtle.
~ Richard P. Kluft
is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
~ Jennifer Archer
A low thrum in his gut. Love. What is the measure of such a thing? Love, or the word love, is like an elusive jungle bird that because it is so durable has thousands of mimics and camouflaged neighbors.
~ Lawrence Krauser
We were taking out mortgages we couldn't afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of paying them back. Banks then changed the bankruptcy laws so that we could not get out of our obligations once the rates changed. Lastly, they sold us back our own mortgages, shifting back to us any of the risk through our money-market accounts and pension funds.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
All those I live with are unseen.
~ Joan London
It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.
~ Fannie Flagg
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
~ Trevor Paglen
An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Sitting there, watching the shades of evening settle slowly on the drab little town, it seemed to me that nothing but blind blundering vengeance, howsoever camouflaged, awaits all those who dare to step out of its stifling confines. It is a confrontation whose outcome is as certain as the end of solitary boats beating against a maelstrom.
~ Arun Joshi
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
~ Norman Borlaug
Small Moth... She's slicing ripe white peaches into the Tony the Tiger bowl and dropping slivers for the dog poised vibrating by her foot to stop their fall when she spots it, camouflaged, a glimmer and then full on- happiness, plashing blunt soft wings inside her as if it wants to escape again.
~ Sarah Lindsay
To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person. Certainly, his painting skills were excellent. His musical ability was better than average. Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable.
~ Markus Zusak
He had the kind of face that became instantly invisible in crowds.
~ Jojo Moyes
I think there is a compliment there somewhere, but it is very well disguised
~ Jude Morgan
The best director is the one you don't see.
~ Billy Wilder
Happiness was such an elusive thing to spot: it was like a camouflaged moth that might or might not be hidden in the forest in front of you, or might have flown away.
~ Michel Faber
She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.
~ Johnny Worthen, Beatrysel
the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
~ Kim Gordon
Maybe I'm like the vehicle," Eve decided. "Keep it ordinary on the outside, so nobody notices all the hardware inside.
~ J.D. Robb