Surreptitiously Quotes

#1. Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Gil Courtemanche

#2. No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration."
I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.

Kevin Hearne

#3. My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

Matt Groening

#4. Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Bill Keller

#5. Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

Astro Teller

#6. It was a reminder that the labeling of others is usually a silent process. Most people do not openly force us into roles, they merely suggest that we adopt them through their reactions to us, and hence surreptitiously prevent us from moving beyond whatever mold they have assigned us. 12. A

Alain De Botton

#7. Lincoln felt a surge of something like strength. He set down Harold and Maude, surreptitiously, and picked up something else, Hairspray.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

Randall Jarrell

#9. To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

Sun Tzu

#10. I remember a little dispersed band of unfamiliar faces that surreptitiously turned around, now and then, to see who was coughing.

J.D. Salinger

#11. Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

Robin Williams

#12. I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does

Julio Cortazar

#13. Even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge" - and where is the empirical proof for that?

Ken Wilber

#14. Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

David F. Dinges

#15. Months slip through the house surreptitiously, like uninvited spirits.

Beck Anderson

#16. Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

Berkeley Breathed

#17. Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.

George Osborne

#18. Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

Stephanie Mills

#19. Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

Fawn Germer

#20. I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith.

Torii Hunter

#21. Til shade is gone,
til water is gone
Into the shadow with teeth bared
Screaming defiance with the last breath
To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

Robert Jordan

#22. I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Phil Donahue

#23. I like guys who are honest and funny. Looks come and go; I want to be 65 years old and laughing with my husband.

Jessica Lowndes

#24. If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

Karen Salmansohn

#25. Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

A. Y. Jackson

#26. Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

David Schwimmer

#27. The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes

Soroosh Shahrivar

#28. It's all part of Dina's unwavering message: Be grateful. Dress like a normal person. Don't have opinions. Eat the food that's put in front of you. Molly

Christina Baker Kline