Revealing Quotes - page 6

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. (Nick Cave)
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden. View quote
Shelley Winters
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. View quote
Alan Moore
The church and the world alike demand that those who profess to love the Lord should be careful to love their brethren also. It is for them to have in essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things charity. Only so can the church realize the ideal of its Divine Founder, and foreshadow its future excellence and beauty. Only so can this spiritual structure be celestial and glorious, revealing in all its fair proportions from dome and turret, from glittering spires and airy traceries, its marvelous symmetry and oneness, while at the same time it swells from every organ pipe, and chants in every choral anthem the praises of Him whose essence is love, and whose being is characterized by unity. View quote
John McClellan Holmes
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. View quote
Twiggy
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do. View quote
A. S. Byatt
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. View quote
Helen Thomas
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing. View quote
Anne Carson
Maybe all poetry, insofar as it moves us and connects with us, is a revealing of something that the writer doesn't actually want to say but desperately needs to communicate, to be delivered of. Perhaps it's the need to keep it hidden that makes it poetic-makes it poetry. View quote
Ted Hughes
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
Therefore, no one should misunderstand Me. By Avatarically Revealing and Confessing My Divine Status to one and all and All, I am not indulging in self-appointment, or in illusions of grandiose Divinity. I am not claiming the "Status" of the "Creator-God" of exoteric (or public, and social, and idealistically pious) religion. Rather, by Standing Firm in the Divine Position (As I Am)-and (Thus and Thereby) Refusing to be approached as a mere man, or as a "cult"-figure, or as a "cult"-leader, or to be in any sense defined (and, thereby, trapped, and abused, or mocked) as the "man in the middle"-I Am Demonstrating the Most Perfect Fulfillment (and the Most Perfect Integrity, and the Most Perfect Fullness) of the Esoteric (and Most Perfectly Non-Dual) Realization of Reality. View quote
Adi Da
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. View quote
Karl Rove
Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there! View quote
Ellie Goulding
I call it to mind and delight in it now, but I did not notice it at the time. We next to never know when we are well off: but this cuts two ways,--for if we did, we should perhaps know better when we are ill off also; and I have sometimes thought that there are as many ignorant of the one as of the other. He who wrote, "O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint agricolas,” might have written quite as truly, "O infortunatos nimium sua si mala norint”; and there are few of us who are not protected from the keenest pain by our inability to see what it is that we have done, what we are suffering, and what we truly are. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow. View quote
Stephen Covey
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. View quote
Henry Rollins
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth. View quote
Richard Rohr
[The spider of sin] sleeps quietly, unseen by the human eye. How do we then bring him into the light? The answer is the stick of God's Law. It is the only means of revealing him. If we open up the Moral Law, it will cause his ugly head to appear... Later, if you are willing, we will lure him out into the open and with the help of God, spray him with the 'gospel spray' of the blood of Jesus Christ. View quote
Ray Comfort
Theology thus understood, that is to say as linked to praxis, fulfills a prophetic function insofar as it interprets historical events with the intention of revealing and proclaiming their profound meaning. View quote
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it. (Rachel Cusk)
Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. View quote
Agatha Christie
The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage. View quote
Francis Bacon
I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. View quote
Sarah Vowell
I am told, in a dream ... you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream. View quote
Eugène Ionesco