Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.
Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison. '
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover their faces when they're doing the haj.
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
How soon will time cover all things.
So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.
Hank had left me his doomed army, and he’d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn’t begin to cover it.
I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event. . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.
It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.
I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful. . . To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.
Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture's going to be. So there's a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it's going to be.