The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
Fezzik: [to Inigo regarding the man in black] You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.
Gordon Deitrich: You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Rorschach: Your turn doctor! Tell me! [puts on Rorschach mask] Rorschach: What do you see?
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.
You shut up!You speak too much for someone who always keeps his mouth hidden behind a mask!
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'
In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he concea...
But I can’t help but long for a real return to the Western. Westerns are true Americana. They tell of the struggles of our ancestors who came West seeking new homes, new ways of living, freedom and the promise of a bright future. The story of the W...
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads wi...
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest ...
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
