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Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are. -- Phil Cousineau
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me -- Juliana Hatfield
I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe. -- Megan Fox
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. -- Norodom Sihanouk
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. -- James Clavell
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. -- Milan Kundera
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. -- John Irving
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in. -- Edward St Aubyn
I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath. -- Karen Maitland
The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day. -- Rachel Sklar
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. -- Cofer Black
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there. -- Bob Parsons
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. -- Louis Farrakhan
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan. -- Bernard Beckett
Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe. -- Ronald Kessler
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface. -- Alice McDermott
Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there. -- Virginia Postrel
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch. -- Rory Bremner
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover. -- Sam Shepard
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. -- Margaret Atwood
The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another. -- Beau Willimon
I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us. -- Jacques Audiard
I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do. -- Russell Crowe
As I actualize, I uncover. -- Martin Buber
The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there... -- Simon McBurney
Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers. -- Johnny Hunt
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. -- Thomas R. Pickering
Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day. -- Zig Ziglar
You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it. -- Eleanor Duckworth
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession. -- Richard Sibbes
A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book. -- ferrrer joey palomar fesico
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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way, -- Paul Baloche
Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide. -- Peter Gabriel
When we bury the illusion of perfection, we uncover the reality of daily progress. -- Terry Crouson
I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. -- Margaret Atwood
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth. -- Jagadish Chandra Bose
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them. -- Napoleon Hill
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. -- David Luiz
As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue. -- Eric Schlosser
I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it. -- Mustafa Akyol
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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look. -- Brian Cox
We need each other / We believe in one another / And I know we're gonna uncover / What's sleeping in our souls -- Noel Gallagher
Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way. -- Susane Colasanti
By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades. -- Tara Brach
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. -- Philip Kitcher
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is. -- Catherine Doherty
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. -- Douglas Lenat
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program. -- George W. Bush
Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath. -- Karen Maitland
Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you. -- Cheryl Richardson
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. -- Picabo Street
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place. -- Blake Lively
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this. -- Richard Davidson
I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart. -- Michael Chabon
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. -- Nicole Krauss
To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego. -- Peter Santos
We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole. -- Donald Hall
Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric -- Lily Blake
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas. -- Linus Pauling
Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them. -- Linda Olsson
Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it. -- Pema Chodron
Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself. -- Rodney Yee
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. -- Terry Tempest Williams
When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature. -- Wayne Muller
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery. -- Jean Cocteau
When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world. -- Kevin Eikenberry
Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton. -- Jerry Falwell
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn -- Stephen Hawking
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects. -- Frantz Fanon
To discover the source of this alchemical love within is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are. -- Atalina Wright
It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business. -- Brian Solis
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? -- Germaine Greer
Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
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What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true. -- Brassai
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand. -- Craig Silvey
I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. -- August Wilson
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) -- John Irving

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