Camouflage Quotes

• Camouflage is a game we all like to play

  Russell Lynes

  Play, Games

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Art, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

  Russell Lynes

  Games, Play, Secret

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

  Peter Thomas

  Inspirational, People, Gears

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• When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

  Andrew Vachss

  Weakness, Predator, Hunts

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Sacrifice”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Opposites

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Demetri Martin", 2004), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

  Edith Head

  Believe, Magic, Doe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

  David M. Shoup

  History, Remember, Hours

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• There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Shade, Sun

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.323, Vintage

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Comedy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

  Smokey Robinson

  Hurt, Sadness, Pride

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• I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Trousers

  "Tommy Cooper: the best quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2014.

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• Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

  Andrew Vachss

  Guy, Helping, Willing

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.255, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Insecure, Perfect, Insecurity

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• If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Cat, Survival, Tools

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• Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Order, Flaws

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• Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

  Ramana Maharshi

  Acquisition, Faculty, Realisation

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

  Pat Conroy

  Mirrors, Strategy, Wells

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pain, Hair, Mourning

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Narrative, Scandal

  "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Laughing, Vices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.221, Penguin

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• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Spiritual, Agreement, Ideas

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• We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Special, Trying

  "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.

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• By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

  Darin Strauss

  Light, Skins, Watches

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

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