Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The best part about being in ladies disguise is that women forget I am actually a man! — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
“I’m in disguise. I’m disguised as myself, and I’m a master of disguise, so that’s why you couldn’t tell I was in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No mask you might don, whether cast in gold or comprised of dust, can disguise you from me. In a thousand ways… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
“Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes." I shoved… — Jus Accardo Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image