Covering Quotes · Page 2

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

— Bob Lewis

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of”

— Josh Stern

Look, I'm no stranger to covering tragedies. I've done this my entire career.

— Alisyn Camerota

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

— Lester Levenson

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them…

— Alice Walker

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering…

— Rumi

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then…

— Robert Jay Lifton

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count…

— James McBride

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what…

— Tom Hayden

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it…

— Melanie Martinez

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have…

— Anja Niedringhaus

I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the…

— Maria Bartiromo

Network news will still play an incredibly important role in this country, but the world that Peter, Tom and Dan began covering…

— Jeff Zucker

For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The…

— Stephen Russell

I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged…

— Megyn Kelly

Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of…

— Hans Heysen

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us…

— Bob Tyrrell

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass…

— Seth Shostak

“Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering!”

— Sanjo Jendayi

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

— Dick Schaap

“..all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him..”

— George Orwell

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

— David Burge

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

— Anonymous

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

— Julie Burchill

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

— Henry Ford

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

— Dennis Banks

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,…

— Claire Tomalin

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department…

— George R. R. Martin

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

— Darren Shan

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

— Kurt Loder

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

— Elon Musk

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

— John Tesh

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

— Charles Portis