Disguise Quotations

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselves as colleges, where it's just something on the Internet with no resources behind it.

What we know now from our initial police investigation is that the suicide bomber made some attempt to disguise his appearance. From what we saw from our forensics team ... is that he bleached his hair,

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation.

Last year we had to really try to disguise it because we were limited in what we could do down the field, and there was no cushion for the receiver there.

On all the videos, it is pretty clear it is the same person. He made no effort to disguise himself.

She goes in disguise uptown to thieve in the homes of the rich. She's a survivor.

Maybe those (losses) are a blessing in disguise because they have to work harder.

Right after that game I said, I hope this will be a blessing in disguise and we can start something special down the stretch and I think it really did.

I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Cell phones are not working, land lines are not working, so communication is almost by word of mouth, ... It's a blessing in disguise because people have started communicating with each other in a way that we used to a long time ago. 'Have you seen so and so?' 'Yes, I saw so and so yesterday at this place. They were at the Home Depot trying to get ice and water.' So you know that family is OK.

I'm a superhero in disguise as a ne'er-do-well cad.

I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theater company in New York, but calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been canceled. This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences--all of us are the losers.

Had I been a first-round pick -- which never would have happened -- and they made me play, I wouldn't have done any good. I would have been bad. So I wasn't ready. So it's kind of a blessing in disguise for me.

Hobbes got all my better qualities (with a few quirks from our cats), and Calvin my ranting, escapist side. Together, they're pretty much a transcript of my mental diary ... it's pretty startling to reread these strips and see my personality exposed so plainly right there on paper. I meant to disguise that better.

I think it was actually a blessing in disguise that I come from Hawaii, where they just back up all their athletes no matter how foreign it may be to the state of Hawaii.

I think they got a little sour taste in their mouths from not winning that district title. I think that gave them a little extra hunger. They're not ready for their season to end. In hindsight, it might have been a blessing in disguise to not get that victory. I think it's made them more focused to try and get a nice run in before they're gone.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

Options are cool. I think we should play it safe and just beat the Lions. But we can't take them lightly. Well, we can, and we probably will, but we'll disguise it well. Like Harrington said earlier, Detroit is riding a one-game winning streak, and their kicking game is on fire. We know Detroit will give us their best shot, so we better bring our C game at worst.

Statistics don't lie. I'm not going to disguise the fact that we need a poacher. The problem we have got is obvious.

Starting with the recession in the mid-70's, the worse the economy got the better Wal-Mart sales would be. Now, like everybody else, Wal-Mart is using every excuse in the book to disguise company-specific problems.

I was trying to find a way to get into the end zone. So I came out in disguise trying to dissect a game plan to get me to the end zone. It had been so long since I had gotten in there before I finally got in, and I actually did it playing around (with costumes). And then the fans and people started looking forward to it. The fans began to help me, and now it's turned into this national-known scene that we have now.

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

It definitely is going to test the depth. Hopefully these aren't serious injuries for these guys. Sometimes a little rest at this time of year can be a blessing in disguise for players like that. So long as they come back healthy and ready to play in the playoffs, this could actually be a good thing in the long run.

I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it.

The proof is in the pudding. Don't let today's visit disguise the fact that the president's energy plan still centers on subsidizing the coal and nuclear industry to build more dirty and dangerous power.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

(The Rebels) did a lot of things to disguise (their blitzing). We have to figure some things out. But as long as the defense plays like that, we should be fine.

(The Rebels) did a lot of things to disguise (their blitzing), ... We have to figure some things out. But as long as the defense plays like that, we should be fine.

We've got three years of film to watch on him, so we'll be looking at that and figuring out things that we can try on him, ... You have to keep an eye on him wherever he goes. We'll try to disguise a few things up front, how many guys we're rushing, things like that. It's all a matter of keeping him guessing.

Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them

We tried to disguise our zone, but we didn't communicate very well and he got by me. I tried my hardest, but he just beat me.

We try to disguise our coverage as much as we can. A lot of them have been really good breaks on the ball and being in the right spot at the right time.

We don't want to show everything right when we get up (to the line). We want to disguise a little bit and not let Peyton have an easy read. That's going to be the key to the whole game, how well we disguise.

We like to match up and disguise our zones. We wanted them to become a perimeter team and give them the outside shot but always have someone in their face contesting every attempt.

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising. People believe what they see or what they think they see. Deception and disguise often work.

Sometimes the things that fall through are a blessing in disguise and you find something even better,

You never know when he's going to snap the ball. If you're trying to disguise and he quick-snaps you, you're caught out of place.

The United States of America will not allow our welcome to be abused by those who disguise themselves and their intentions,

This game was actually a blessing in disguise for us. They came at us really hard. They're a well-coached team, and we had to deal with some adversity in that third period.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

They don't know who's going to get the ball, and then somebody's going in motion on every play, so that misdirection really throws them off. We have so many ways to disguise our plays, so the defense can never really tell what we're doing.

They did some things to disguise some things to get us where everybody wasn't on the same page. We just didn't execute.

A common tactic in direct mail is to disguise the nature of the solicitation and send you something that doesn't indicate what's inside, to make you open the envelope. People aren't opening the 'mystery envelopes' right now.

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

It's almost like a blessing in disguise to get on the road because it's a better challenge and we can get away from all the distractions in Miami.

It's huge. But really, there's ways we disguise it that there's eight so you can't recognize it. But we do a lot of it with seven in the box.

David said something jumped across him at the second, and that frightened the life out of him. He took a bit of time to get his confidence back after that, but maybe it was a blessing in disguise because that way he didn't get into the race too soon.

That's a blessing in disguise because they left a big void in their genre of music and that's opened a little hole for us to fit in there,

It was a black mark for hockey, but for a lot of guys, it was a blessing in disguise as they could rest up. There's quite a few guys in the NHL that really benefited from the lay-off. On our team, we had a deep playoff run and we had guys like Lombardi (concussion) who got banged up. That time off, it helps, and guys could physically and mentally recover.

It's not all real. You have to understand when he's doing dummy calls. We can tell from the film study when he's doing his fake calls. We know how to read that pretty much. But when he's on his calls, we definitely need to disguise what we're doing and show him some different looks and (make him) check to something they don't want to run.

It's really a way to disguise your fund-raising.

I'm hoping it's one of those things where it's going to be a blessing in disguise in the long run.

If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?

I know my body, ... That's the best thing about it. I know that with my back, I'm getting through this OK. With a leg injury, I probably wouldn't be able to disguise it as well and probably wouldn't be able to start. We've probably got a handful of guys on this team right now that have things going on. It's not that big a deal. We'll grind through it.

If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.

Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

Naked is the best disguise.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

I don't think there is a disguise you could use to send him over there. Everyone there knows him.

He's not afraid to walk around and talk to the staff. He doesn't take a stay-in-the-office approach. He doesn't look for ways to disguise or minimize a problem. He tries to get to the bottom of it.