Hiding Quotes - Page 10

• I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Book, Kids, Talking

  "Anthony Jeselnik on Sharon Stone, thankless open mics, and his evil plan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Pain, Thinking, Self

  "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Views, Glasses, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

  Meat Loaf

  Expression, Crackers, Boxes

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• I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

  Meat Loaf

  Rocks, Expression, Mountain

  Song: Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

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• You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

  Bob Fosse

  Trying, Toilets, Whole Life

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• Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Heart, Men

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• You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Defense, Intimacy

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• In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

  William Saroyan

  Sorrow, Add, Delight

  The Time of Your Life (1939)

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• He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Lonely, People, Bird

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Littles, Quirks

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• I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

  Paul Simon

  Book, Islands, Rocks

  Song: I Am a Rock, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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• None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

  Steven Erikson

  Confusion, Secret, Crumbling

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• But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

  Louise Penny

  Children, Home, Past

  Louise Penny (2009). “The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.372, Minotaur Books

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• And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Stupid, Twilight

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• God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

  J.P. Moreland

  God, Christian, Freedom

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• I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Like Family, Mama

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Distance, Heart, Self

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• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Organization, Engagement

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Desperate, Still Life With Woodpecker, Form

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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• The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Book, Heart, Mind

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• It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moon, Years, Feet

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Water, Gowns

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Crush, Self, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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• Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Running, Ideas, Long

  Michael Marshall Smith (1998). “One of Us”, Bantam

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