Chameleon Quote by Learned Hand Download Open image “Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.” — Learned Hand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chameleon Color Environment Language Reflection
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a Chameleon in them.. as we change colors depending on our own Convenience...!!!” — Abhijeet Sawant Copy Share Image
“There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... . — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
If I hear ‘Karma Chameleon’ one more time, I swear I’m going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse’s record. What does… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“He was a chameleon. He could change his appearance in seconds. He was a master in disguise and he could baffle the best in… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go. "Aren't we all?" she said...” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that it goes… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image