Covering famous quotes
04-23-2025
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I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
-- Bob Lewis -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
-- Carey Lowell -
Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.
-- Charles Foster Johnson -
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
-- Chris Argyris -
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
-- Dan Rather -
In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.
-- Dennis Banks -
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
-- Dougray Scott -
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
-- Du Fu -
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
-- Ed Bradley -
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
-- Elon Musk -
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.
-- Eve Ensler -
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps
-- Frank Iero -
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection
-- Frederick Douglass -
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks
-- Geraldo Rivera -
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
-- Giovanni Giocondo -
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!
-- Giovanni Giocondo -
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
-- Howie Carr -
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
-- Jamais Cascio -
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.
-- James Hervey -
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
-- Jean Racine -
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
-- Jessica Savitch -
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
-- Jim Lehrer -
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.
-- Jo Bonner -
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.
-- John C. Calhoun -
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
-- John Calvin -
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
-- Johnny Miller -
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
-- Julie Burchill -
It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
-- Kurt Loder -
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
-- Kurt Loder -
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.
-- Lester Levenson -
Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.
-- Mehmet Oz -
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.
-- Michael Kenna -
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.
-- Neil Cavuto -
Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.
-- Philip Carr-Gomm -
Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.
-- Reba McEntire -
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
-- Rider Strong -
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
-- Robert Boswell -
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?
-- Ryokan Taigu -
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.
-- Sam Smith -
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.
-- Stanley Schmidt -
I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.
-- Theresa May -
All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
The hardest scene for me is always the scene when I'm dealing with performances, when I'm actually looking at the guys and hoping that I'm covering it in the right way and that I'm handling it in the right way.
-- Tony Scott -
I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.
-- Wolf Blitzer -
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
-- Bent Saether -
We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.
-- Clara Jeffery -
People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.
-- Donald Verrilli Jr. -
What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers.
-- Fred Ritchin -
It feels like I am covering all aspects of what I do and operating in the gift God gave me. I believe God has freed me up to go in some other places because I am responsible and understand the power of music.
-- Regina Belle -
Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.
-- David Burge -
The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.
-- Edward Britton -
Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.
-- Johnny Borrell -
On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
-- Lee Maracle
