Masqueraded Quotes

#1. Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edward Gibbon

#2. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#3. It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.

Natsuo Kirino

#4. She didn't care to be reminded how starved she looked, but she could hardly bemoan the fact. It had lent well to her disguise. Though seventeen, she had masqueraded as a stripling lad beneath the very noses of the Yankees. Captain Latimer had not even been suspicious.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#5. Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means

Dew Platt

#6. Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

Wanda Jackson

#8. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Joseph Campbell

#9. Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Francis Bacon

#10. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life ... Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.

James Joyce

#11. I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

Helen Hunt

#12. When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

Scott Michael Foster

#13. I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to-day.

Jerome K. Jerome

#14. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

Jimmy Carter

#15. If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?

Emily Carr

#16. I would have gotten you there!" Puck roared. "Me! You don't need his help! Don't you trust me to keep you safe? I would've given everything for you. Why didn't you think I'd be enough?

Julie Kagawa

#17. IF THE PONTIFF BELIEVES HIMSELF TO BE G-D, SO BE IT, BUT JUST AS I HAVE GIVEN I SHALL TAKETH AWAY. FOR IT WAS I, WHO BROUGHT MY PEOPLE UP AND OUT OF EGYPT, AND BY MY OWN HAND , I SHALL DELIVER THEM BACK AND LET THEM BRING THEMSELVES UP AND OUT FROM HELL

Alejandro C. Estrada

#18. Intention is everything.

Garth Stein

#19. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

Norton Juster