Quotes About Covering Up

#1. Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.

Philip Carr-Gomm

#2. I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Eve Ensler

#3. Hiding. Covering up. Self-protection. Feeling exposed. They are telltale signs of shame.

Edward T. Welch

#4. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?

Samantha Schutz

#5. I crave broken men.
When I try to save other people
am I trying to save myself?
Am I covering up for my lack of strength
by putting people back together?
I am tired.
I want someone to save me -
build an intricate web
and place it beneath me in case I fall.

Samantha Schutz

#6. Another day without being arrested for murder and/or covering up a murder was a good day in my book.

Darynda Jones

#7. He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

Alex London

#8. Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

Twiggy

#9. Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. I know from doing portraits that you have to look at someone a really long time to see what they're covering up, to see their inside face, and when you do see it, and get it down, that's the thing that makes people freak out about how much a drawing looks like them.

Jandy Nelson

#11. Do we really need each other, or are we just covering up each other's loneliness?

Vatsal Surti

#12. Who are you really, behind the avatars you've created for yourself? What are you covering up? What are you afraid of? What are you hoping for? Where are you going?

Jonathan Martin

#13. Something to remember is that covering up a lie almost always makes it more obvious,

Liam Saxon

#14. Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Chris Argyris

#15. Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban ...

J.K. Rowling

#16. I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Ne-Yo

#17. Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.

Frederick Lenz

#18. My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

Slavoj Zizek

#19. There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.

Stephen King

#20. I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

Banks

#21. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Jim Trelease

#22. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.

Felix J. Palma

#23. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

#24. Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

Paulo Freire

#25. Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

#27. One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#28. Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
looks like cunning.

Baltasar Gracian

#29. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

#30. Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Robert Boswell

#31. Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Tyler Cowen

#32. I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Carey Lowell

#33. Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#34. I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

Sara Sheridan

#35. Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

Peter MacNicol

#36. Poppy, this is London society, where the truth can get you into trouble. If you tell one truth, you'll have to tell another truth, and another, to keep covering up.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Julie Burchill

#38. Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Dougray Scott

#39. Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

#41. I can't help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn't a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn't matter.

Tim Kreider

#42. Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

Todd Solondz

#43. I grabbed my napkin and managed to pretend to sneeze which had the added effect of covering up most of my face which was surely completely beet red with embarrassment at this point. Yeah, I was classy and suave like that. Jesus Christ, Angel, get a grip!

Diana Rowland

#44. Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.

Maria Vargas Llosa

#45. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.

Corey Ann Haydu

#46. Everyone feels, Aspen. Some are just better at covering it up.

Linda Kage

#47. All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#48. Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Johnny Hunt

#49. Love can't cover over the sins we cover up ... If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Mark Buchanan

#50. Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#51. Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.

Enrico Caruso

#52. I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.

Kim Wilde

#53. When the hole was done they backed the machine up and turned it around and used the front bucket to push Keever into his grave, scraping him, rolling him, covering his body with dirt, until finally it fell over the lip and thumped down into the electric shadows.

Lee Child

#54. People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

John Fowles

#55. Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.

Reba McEntire

#56. That's the funny thing about lies; you have to keep covering them up with more lies.

Penelope Ward

#57. Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

Jim Walton

#58. My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps

Frank Iero

#59. A.J. nodded, covering her smile with a hand as Devlin emerged with his hair messed up and hay hanging off his sweater. He looked like he'd been through a war.
"You okay there, champ?" Chester asked. "Those there grain bags can be tough when they come atcha in a pack like that.

J.R. Ward

#60. When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.

Ronda Rousey

#61. Shaking his head at the way of the world, Fred Colon walked right up to the wall so cruelly - or cruelleah - denuded of its covering.

Terry Pratchett

#62. Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

J.K. Rowling

#63. When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

Rodney Dangerfield

#64. I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

John Tesh

#65. Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.

Neal Shusterman

#66. Celeste had been raised to be a specific kind of pretty. That beauty depended on covering things up, shifting the light, and seeking to be perfect at all times. But there is a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty, and she was glowing with it now. Maxon

Kiera Cass

#67. It feels like I am covering all aspects of what I do and operating in the gift God gave me. I believe God has freed me up to go in some other places because I am responsible and understand the power of music.

Regina Belle

#68. The feathers have been retired to the London Hard Rock Cafe. I don't obsess about it as much. Also, it's strange - the better physical shape I get in, the less I care about what suit I'm covering myself up in. I'm not really out to flaunt it, but I'm just more comfortable in my own skin.

Brandon Flowers

#69. You don't get out of a hole by covering the hole, you get out of the hole by climbing your way up.

Michael Sloan

#70. I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

Ken Auletta

#71. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

Louis C.K.

#72. I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.

Stephen Graham Jones

#73. Ll the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him..

George Orwell

#74. I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Christian Bale

#75. He took in the bubbles covering her and smiled. "I think that's enough."
"Enough?"
"To get me clean." Taking one step forward, he slipped and slided up and down the length of her body.

Robin Bielman

#76. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Catharine MacKinnon

#77. The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

Edward Britton

#78. She's unhappy!" said Hermione, exasperated. "Why don't you try and cheer her up instead of covering her up?

J.K. Rowling

#79. History teaches us that self-proclaimed authority makes the most mistakes. And is the best at covering them up." The

Zygmunt Miloszewski

#80. If I turn into another, dig me up from under what is covering the better me

Brandon Boyd

#81. CHAPTER VII Geometrical Details. - Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon. - The Double Receptacle. - The Covering. - The Car. - The Mysterious Apparatus. - The Provisions and Stores. - The Final Summing up.

Jules Verne

#82. Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Alexander McCall Smith

#83. I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.

Brother Ali

#84. When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

Jeff Kinney

#85. The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective.

Barack Obama

#86. I wake up this morning to a thin blanket of white covering our front lawn. It isn't even an inch, but in this part of Oregon a slight dusting brings everything to a standstill as the one snowplow in the county

Gayle Forman

#87. Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Mahatma Gandhi

#88. On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

Lee Maracle

#89. I gagged instinctively, covering my mouth with my hand, but I also laughed. Through my fingers I mumbled, "It's like there's a party going on in my mouth, and everyone is throwing up.

Penny Reid