Covering Quotes

283 quotes by 266 authors

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything… — Christian Bale
I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet… — Lewis Black
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. — Julie Burchill
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if… — Michael Caine
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and… — Howie Carr
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position… — Ralph Miller
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. — Henry Ward Beecher
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David,… — William Gurnall
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not… — Francis Pharcellus Church
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then… — Ivan Pavlov
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the… — Giovanni Giocondo
The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway… — Martin Lings
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. — Catharine MacKinnon
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. — Sam Smith
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness,… — Laurence Housman
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… — Anne Lamott
In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. — Paulo Coelho
I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not… — Ronald Reagan
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true,… — Paul Simon

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