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Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains. -- Lane Kirkland
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art -- Thomas Aquinas
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. -- Walter Savage Landor
When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood. -- Junot Diaz
Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed. -- James Nesbitt
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. -- Paul Hawken
I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification. -- Kurt Eichenwald
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. -- Peter Shaffer
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate. -- Jay Griffiths
There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him. -- Jake Roberts
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it. -- Deborah Mailman
I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself. -- Damien Rice
In Paris, our lives are one masked ball. -- Gaston Leroux
We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. -- Rush Limbaugh
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. -- Greg Bear
We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. -- Edmund Burke
She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relentless cheerfulness. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out. -- William Wycherley
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. -- Philip Sidney
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. -- J. K. Rowling
It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view. -- Jeff Cooper
So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked. -- Rene Descartes
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art. -- V. S. Pritchett
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration. -- Walter Savage Landor
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy. -- Luke Davies
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. -- James Beard
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. -- Luc de Clapiers

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