Mask Quotes - Page 12

• I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Faces

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• A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

  Jay Leno

  Reading, Men, Florida

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• We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Being Thankful, Enemy, Theatre

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

  Kyle Baker

  Play, People, Interesting

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• Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

  Laozi

  Dust, Earth, Unions

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

  William Butler Yeats

  Personality, Style, Hot

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.

  James Frain

  Fun, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Grief, Honor

  "On War". www.nybooks.com. December 16, 2004.

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• I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.

  Jackie Chan

  Wire, Wearing A Mask, Hollywood

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• Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Self, Way, Firsts

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

  Michel Foucault

  Ability, Tolerable, Conditions

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.86, Vintage

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• The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

  Jane Roberts

  Evil, Criminals, Detectives

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.427, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

  Florinda Donner

  Long, Cost, Fit

  Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins

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• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

  William Hazlitt

  Sarcasm, Men, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• A lot of people don't know that I love to love. To have a different kind of mask on me where people feel like I'm not a loving individual. I just love to love, I love everything and everybody, I'm about peace that's my spirit.

  Snoop Dogg

  People, Different, Spirit

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, Biographies

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• Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

  Edith Hamilton

  Injustice, Conventions

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

  Duke of Wellington

  Coward, Uniforms

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• Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

  Jack Adams

  Wearing A Mask, Hiker

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• We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Wonder, Feels

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

  Paul Ekman

  Unhappy Person, People, Feelings

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