What Are They Trying To Cover Up Quotes

#1. I've realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.

Katie Kiesler

#2. Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

Bill Gates

#3. There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Sharon Jaynes

#5. I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.

Chip Kidd

#6. [M]aking a show was better cover than trying to stay inconspicuous; Western capitalism in particular allowed the rich just about the right amount of behavioural leeway to account for the oddities our alienness might produce.

Iain M. Banks

#7. Have I come at a bad time?" she managed to say without guffawing. I believe I said something on the order of "argh," and compounded my embarrassment by trying to cover myself with the sweatpants I'd picked up off the floor.

Jeffrey Cohen

#8. I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.

Tasha Smith

#9. I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday 'Times.' You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review ... even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

Joy Behar

#10. Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Nhat Hanh

#11. (T)hey at last understood that their problems would never have been solved by trying to cover them up or choke them back or pretend they didn't exist. By repression. No, their problems could only be solved by expression. By telling their tales, and by making up new ones, too.

Adam Gidwitz

#12. We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

Robert Genn

#13. Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Ramana Maharshi

#14. We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

Jon Meacham

#15. But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the shame of words that have snaked off your tongue and poisoned corners of your life, for you who keep trying to cover up pain with perfectionism.

Ann Voskamp

#16. A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

Manny Montana

#17. If you are trying to find more information on Marilyn Miles Conner, please look under Marilyn Conner Miles. Name was written wrong on original cover.

Marilyn Miles Conner

#18. Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

Shantideva

#19. Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Pythagoras

#20. It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#21. The world is tremendously busy trying to cover up its nakedness, trying to get back again the glory that has been lost.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#22. I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects.

Anna Wintour

#23. Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes

Amy Tintera

#24. Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

Ben Carson

#25. Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#26. It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

#27. It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

Brad Pitt

#28. I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

Emily Blunt

#29. I'm not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed, crying silently, trying to cover herself up. I always ended up ruining them.

L. Jayne

#30. A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.

Austin Mahone