Dissimulating Quotes & Sayings

Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green. — Gunvor Hofmo

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles. — Charles Bukowski

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited. — Walter Pater

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. — Pam Grier

Wow, it's really crowded in here. And really ... furry. — Shannon Messenger

I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues. — Joan Didion

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy. — Jonathan V. Last

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. — Jock Sturges

There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind. — Luigina Sgarro

When what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see. — Robert Jordan

Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary. — Jean Baudrillard

I might be asked, 'Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question "What do modern children need?" - in other words, with the moral or didactic approach?' I think the answer is Yes. Not because I don't like stories to have a moral: certainly not because I think children dislike a moral. Rather because I feel sure that the question 'What do modern children need?' will not lead you to a good moral. If we ask that question we are assuming too superior an attitude. It would be better to ask 'What moral do I need?' for I think we can be sure that what does not concern us deeply will not deeply interest our readers, whatever their age. But it is better not to ask the question at all. Let the pictures tell you their own moral. For the moral inherent in them will rise from whatever spiritual roots you have succeeded in striking during the whole course of your life. But if they don't show you any moral, don't put one in. — C.S. Lewis

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well. — Mark Helprin

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating. — Milan Kundera