Hiding Behind Something Quotes

#1. When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

Tamsin Egerton

#2. As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield

#3. That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.

Kate Morton

#4. Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like.

Jason C. Miller

#5. The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

Kiera Cass

#6. Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?

Mary Balogh

#7. I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg

Gwenn Wright

#8. There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Soong May-ling

#9. I may act like a snarky bitch at times, but that's mostly a front for the scared, shy girl who's hiding behind her.

L. H. Cosway

#10. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

Susan Cain

#11. Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Willem De Kooning

#12. If you get sick again? Alec, stop hiding behind that. We start dying the day we are born. If everyone thought the way you do, no one would ever go after their dreams. There would be a ton of unhappy people moping around.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#13. Well," Skulduggery said, "purely to get this out of the way, I'll just go ahead and say it. There does not seem to be any sign of a railway track on the carpet or, indeed, a train hiding behind the sofa. And I don't think one could have fitted through the door.

Derek Landy

#14. The country must be full of liars," she continued. "There must be liars around every corner. Liars hiding behind every bush. Liars just waiting to tell lies about something. Unrepentant liars. Old liars, young liars; perhaps even babies whose first word is a lie. Perhaps

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. A secret is a truth, hiding behind a mouth.

Ahmad Albayati

#16. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.

Whitney Barbetti

#17. Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years

Nicole Williams

#18. Looked around for Grandma, spotting her and Dougie hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the street. They were wearing Super Suits and they had bath towels pinned around their necks like capes.

Janet Evanovich

#19. I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

Armistead Maupin

#20. There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.

Kirk Hammett

#21. I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Idina Menzel

#22. It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Lykke Li

#23. I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter - yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!

Alexandre Dumas

#24. As I rang the buzzer to his apartment building, I imagined him, maybe with a bunch of his friends, hiding behind a parked car, watching me, laughing, and saying, "Oh my God, I can't believe she actually showed up. Like she believed I was serious!

Leila Sales

#25. When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.

Laura Prepon

#26. There is nothing more pathetic than people hiding their
cowardice behind seemingly noble intentions.

Amish Tripathi

#27. You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

Betty Friedan

#28. I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

Claire Danes

#29. I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

Tony Parsons

#30. I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi."
"I'm Goten."
"I'm Goku. Hi!"
...
"Daddy!

Akira Toriyama

#31. Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.

Margaret Atwood

#32. I've got to stop this. Stop worrying about the why. Stop forcing what was happening into the realm of impossible. Stop hiding behind excuses. Stop being afraid to step out on faith.

Deatri King-Bey

#33. I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

David Arquette

#34. Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why ... What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.

Whitley Strieber

#35. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.

Alexia Chase

#36. The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was ... good.

Ron Wood

#37. What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.

Judith E. Snow

#38. It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.

Alice Walker

#39. The internet's weird. It's kind of harvesting the negativity. I think negativity has always been out there, but because people are hiding behind the screen, they feel able to express these hateful feelings they've maybe been keeping inside.

Charlyne Yi

#40. Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Saddam Hussein

#41. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.

Rachel Bach

#42. I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them ... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

R. Kelly