#revealing

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#cry #fact #hitherto #i #indeed

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. ↗

— Hugo Black

#founders #government #hoped #led #newspapers

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#around #beauty #beings #everything #gift

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

#change #couple #eventually #few #find

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #because #been #comedies #comedy

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#character #expose #eyes #i #i think

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#be grateful #grateful #let us #mirror #only

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#lines #revealing #sit #something #unusual

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. ↗

— Rick Moody

#concealing #itself #process #revealing #writing

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#drawing #hand #i #make #material