Quotes of Revealing - somelinesforyou

“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge. ”

- Manolo Blahnik

“ I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that. ”

- Alan Keyes

“ Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it. ”

- Arthur Helps

“ The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself. ”

- Judge Harold Medina

“ Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Ofttimes, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.". ”

- Unknown

“ When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. ”

- James Thurber

“ True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. ”

- Studs Terkel

“ She knew how to trust people… a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. ”

- Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

“ Nothing is more revealing than movement. ”

- Martha Graham

“ Love was not given the human heart for careless dealing; Its spark was lit that man might know Divine revealing. ”

- Grace Goodhue Coolidge

“ In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. ”

- Myriam Miedzian

“ Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ”

- Paul De Man

“ Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect. ”

- Lou Diamond Phillips

“ The bass provides a sort of liquid foundational formation that does not gravitationally tie you down. It is good at revealing and highlighting a certain harmonic pinpoint when one is either being looked for or needed. ”

- Bill Dixon

“ I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. ”

- Nick Cave

“ A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ”

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

“ The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? ”

- Dave Barry

“ It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ”

- James Thurber
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