Plain Sight Quotes

#1. Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

Scott Adams

#2. It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

Gerard Way

#3. I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

Harry Markopolos

#4. If you do things in plain sight, people don't interfere. It's when you get all surreptitious that the trouble starts.

Courtney Maum

#5. The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

Jackson Katz

#6. There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is "Don't be stupid."
I'm about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

Pittacus Lore

#7. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.

Sara B. Larson

#8. Sometimes it's best to hide in plain sight.

David Estes

#9. Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.

Don Aslett

#10. Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

Paul Gauguin

#11. The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Of course a carp is just a carp, waiting to become either your pet, or a gefilte fish. But am I wrong to also see this body lying in a pool of blood, being fibbed about in plain sight, as a metaphor for all the corpses and blood never discussed?

Leela Corman

#13. only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.

Peter Thiel

#14. Just because you don't see the devil doesn't mean he isn't there. He doesn't carry a pitchfork. He hides in plain sight.

Laura McHugh

#15. The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.

Michael Lind

#16. Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.

K. Melissa Kennedy

#17. All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyone mentions New Hampshire, that squirrel is always what I think of. I bet I've thought about that squirrel a million times.

Wally Lamb

#18. When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.

Christie Purifoy

#19. But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

Sarah Dessen

#20. Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.

Robert Ferrigno

#21. The best way to hide something is to put it in Plain Sight.

Robert Junior

#22. She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight.

Carolina De Robertis

#23. How wonderful, I thought every time I watched it: to stand next to the people who knew you best and hide yourself completely. To be simultaneously secret and exposed, to be concealed in plain sight, to keep yourself safe and to deliberately risk that safety.

Lynn Darling

#24. He liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it
say, in a nice stained-glass window
not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.

Neal Stephenson

#25. To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

Pico Iyer

#26. Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.

Kathleen Glasgow

#27. The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him

Helen Dunmore

#28. Life, like love, holds many secrets for us to discover. Some we unearth early on. Others take us most of our days to stumble upon, even though they are hidden in plain sight.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#29. There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

Peter Thiel

#30. It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

John Hodgman

#31. All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Robin Sloan

#32. Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

Stephenie Meyer

#33. Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.

Chuck Sambuchino

#34. I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.

Larry Howes

#35. The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,

Mike Lofgren

#36. Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

James Geary

#37. It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.

Robin Sloan

#38. The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.

Elizabeth Brundage

#39. That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

Harlan Coben

#40. Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.

C.J. Box

#41. It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.

Theresa May

#42. This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

Cennino Cennini

#43. It is about simple awareness - awareness of what is so real and
essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep
reminding ourselves, over and over: This is water, this is water.

David Foster Wallace

#44. Some day, I hope that you will find me hidden amidst my worlds, letters, poems and writings, discover me amidst my characters, uncover what i hid in plain sight. But I doubt you will. You have never known how to read between the lines.

Srividya Srinivasan

#45. What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

Charles Baxter

#46. I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

Robin LaFevers

#47. There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Larry Dossey

#48. We hide in plain sight, and it works. Majestically. Everyone else can fuck the fuck off.

Eric Stephenson

#49. That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

Pittacus Lore

#50. I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.

Karen Thompson Walker

#51. Utopia has a way of hiding in plain sight.

David Hopper

#52. The universe is just like old Sherlock Holmes and hides all of its goodies in plain sight.

Steve Merrick

#53. I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

Ben Barnes

#54. To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself - always, always, always - and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.

Dean Koontz

#55. There is an old phrase, 'hiding in plain sight.' This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#56. Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.

Belle Aurora

#57. His facial hair served not just as a calendar but also as a mask, absorbing the stares of others while allowing him a little privacy in plain sight. "I can hide behind it, I can play to stereotypes and assumptions. One of the benefits of being labeled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior.

Michael Finkel

#58. In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

James Martin

#59. The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

Lemony Snicket

#60. Some stories have truths, blended in with a rich tapestry of lies to hide things in plain sight.

Christopher Scott

#61. The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

Alex Gibney

#62. Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It's hard

Rachel Vail

#63. The best way to hide in plain sight was to get fat.

Lisa Lutz

#64. Over the years, I'd learned that under the bed was the best place to keep anything I didn't want found, because there was so much crap - papers, magazines, dirty socks, grocery bags - that no one would ever suspect that anything of value was under there. Sort of like hiding in plain sight.

Kristin Walker

#65. When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

Marianne Williamson

#66. The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day
usually with TV cameras focused on them.

L. Neil Smith

#67. The monster - if there was one - never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.

Sara Gruen

#68. I looked back towards the city, at the dusty plain and the narrow thread of the sea on the horizon, radiant in the late-afternoon sun like the scale coat of a giant dragon disappearing slowly from sight.

Emmi Itaranta

#69. Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.

Mary McCormack

#70. It was always better--safer--to be overlooked.

Michael Scott

#71. If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?

Hudson Taylor

#72. Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you.

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