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Quotes About Hidden

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Secrets turn powerless in the open air.
~ Michael Ondaatje
People are not who or where we think they are. And there is someone who watches from an unknown location
~ Michael Ondaatje
The idea of a woman mailing a postcard as part of a promise to two children far away indicated an expansiveness as well as aloneness, a hidden need in her. It signalled two very different states.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Quite early on I had discovered the overlooked space open to those of us with a silent life. I didn't argue with the policeman who said I couldn't cycle over a certain bridge or through a specific gate in the fort—I just stood there, still, until I was invisible, and then I went through. Like a cricket. Like a hidden cup of water.
~ Michael Ondaatje
That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing.
~ Michael Ondaatje
He'd been a secretive man for most of his life, and now was disconcerted by the secrets he had kept from himself.
~ Michael Ondaatje
whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all of the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water—of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap.
~ Michael Pollan
I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there. But I also know there are Elton Simpsons out there I cannot see.
~ James Comey
It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.
~ Naima Adedapo
A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.
~ Scott Bakula
We're hoping that fans who have listened for a while, or only know the singles will be like, 'Damn, man, I didn't realize track 9 on 'Catalyst,' I didn't realize how awesome that song is.'
~ Chad Gilbert
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
~ Ada Lovelace
When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
~ Steve Krug
It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
~ Dave Obey
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
~ John Hawkes
I feel like we all have our skeletons.
~ Taraji P. Henson
My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.
~ Chris Zylka
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
~ Mason Cooley
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
~ Elizabeth Scott
All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.
~ George R. R. Martin
Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.
~ Jay Bell
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche