Chameleonlike Quotes & Sayings

You have wings, I have roots. — Jorge Molist

Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned — Edward Abbey

Where liberty is, there is my country. — Benjamin Franklin

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant. — Margaret Mitchell

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality. — Linda Wells

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so. — Maya Angelou

Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear. — Anthony Doerr

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. — Douglas Coupland

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. — Ilka Chase

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.' — Cindy Sherman

By these last-minute improvisations, he had, without calling any undue attention to the fact, become the first president to play the race card both ways - once traditionally and once, so to speak, in reverse. His opportunist defenders, having helped him with a reversible chameleonlike change in the color of his skin, still found themselves stuck with the content of his character. — Christopher Hitchens

Oh-h-h-h - Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We're the infantry ... — Richard Yates

It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman. Owing to the fact that upon women devolves the burden of motherhood, with all its accompanying disabilities, they always have been, and always must be, at a natural disadvantage in the struggle of life as compared with men ...
With certain exceptions, women all the world over have been relegated to a position of inferiority in the community, greater or less according to the religion and the social organisation of the people; the more religious the people the lower the status of the women ... — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun. — Walt Disney

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming. — Michael O'Donoghue