Quotes About Unveiling

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained.

Bend down the tree of knowledge and you'll unroost a strange bird.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being inside the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was the bring it out. Violet mother

It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.

The idea is—you don't know what you're interested in. That's why it's possible to be surprised. So, instead of looking for things in particular, you look for what you didn't know you liked, and then when you find it you know that you liked it, and then you are a broader person than you were before.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Audiences like making discoveries.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

I want to allow myself to display myself to people.

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.

God may work in a Mystery, but luckily for us, he's incapable of keeping a secret.

Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.