Mask Quotes - Page 30

• Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ignorance, Paranoia

  "Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled at him and pulled a carefree mask over her face.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sweet, Nice, Taken

  4 Copy quote

• My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee] or Michael Steele [former Republican Lieutenant Governor of Maryland], no relation, both of whom present themselves as individuals, and don't seem to wear a mask. They don't 'bargain;' they don't 'challenge.' So, I see them as fresh, and as evidence of what I hope will be a new trend.

  Shelby Steele

  Challenges, Would Be, Tennessee

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these characters, and I want to be mysterious, but if you know too much about me, it's not going to be too much fun watching me play a character, because it's just going to be me with a mask on, instead of you believing what the mask is.

  Brie Larson

  Fun, Giving Up, Believe

  Source: dailydead.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The left can't win elections without lying and without camouflage and without masks hiding who they really are. So to get their way, they have to bully.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Winning, Bully

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.

  Udi Aloni

  War, Kids, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Reality, Order

  28 Copy quote

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect and walk into freedom.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Hurt, Dark

  4 Copy quote

• You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

  Amanda Peet

  Motherhood, Oxygen, Metaphor

  5 Copy quote

• First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely you will see that you have only a few thoughts repeated again and again - maybe in new forms, new colors, new garments, new masks, but you have only a very few thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Color, Mind, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drawing, Hands, Play

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.5, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Real, Hero

  5 Copy quote

• Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Faces, Originals

  26 Copy quote

• My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.

  Bo Sanchez

  Broken Heart, Children, Love Is

  190 Copy quote

• Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

  Liv Ullmann

  Friendship, Block, Real

  36 Copy quote

• If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

  Frances Conroy

  Botox, Plastic, Surgery

  24 Copy quote

• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mom, Mother, Children

  4 Copy quote

• It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

  Claire Messud

  Fashion, Skins, Grows

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.25, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

  Dana Milbank

  Government, Tape, Duct Tape

  "How to talk to your child about the Islamic State". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

  Carolyn Hax

  Groups, Variation, Firsts

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Needs, Want, Fluffy

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Long, Different, Masters

  4 Copy quote

• Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

  Jim Croce

  Song, Wind, Capes

  24 Copy quote

• I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves.

  Jello Biafra

  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source