Cloaks Quotes - Page 5

• If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

  Karen Abbott

  Children, Night, Orchids

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.

  Keith Carradine

  Badass, Mean, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I do think we've looked at this film [Doctor Strange] not with any direct genre comparison but as a play on the supernatural genre. Certainly more so than we've done in the past, which is what makes his journey from person that doesn't wear a cape to person who does wear a cape - cloak, much more unique than we've seen in the past.

  Kevin Feige

  Unique, Past, Journey

  Source: screenrant.com

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• We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Thinking, Hollywood, Film

  Source: variety.com

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• It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Doctors, Lessons

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

  Rachel McAdams

  Jealous, Doctors, Levitation

  Source: www.enzasbargains.com

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

  John Legend

  Negative, Internet, Comment

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

  Robert Higgs

  Ease, Wealth, Legitimacy

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• Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Kindness, Media, Use

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• When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

  George Whyte-Melville

  Sleep, Pay

  George John Whyte-Melville (1871). “M. Or N.: "Similia Similibus Curantur."”, p.76

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• The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Artist, Technique

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• When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Attachment, Old Things

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.581, Modern Library

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• How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Gowns, Riches

  Thomas Brooks, Jay Patrick Green, Sr. (2000). “A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold”, p.166, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

  David Gemmell

  Fighting, White, Evil

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

  Robert E. Howard

  Past, Worn, Worn Out

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

  Ivan Klíma

  Revenge, Justice, Principles

  Ivan Klíma (1994). “Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light”

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• Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

  John Carroll

  Passion, Mean, Expression

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis

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• I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

  Piet Mondrian

  Hate, Inspiration, Fire

  Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).

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• Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Meditation, Soul

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

  Willa Cather

  Dignity, Quiet, Protection

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.57, Vintage

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• [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

  Ouida

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Religion

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

  Henry Fielding

  Country, Sin, Gravity

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy, James P. Browne (1871). “Preface. Essay on the life and genius of Henry Fielding, esq. Love in several masques, a comedy. The temple beau, a comedy. The author's farce; with a puppet shew, called The pleasures of the town. The coffee house politician; or, The justice caught in his own trap, a comedy. The tragedy of tragedies; or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great”, p.384

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

  Bayard Taylor

  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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• Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Space, Goal, Age

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