Disguised Quotations

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

'Venus in Fur' is very Polanski: you have the knife of 'Rosemary's Baby'; you have Thomas disguised as a woman as in 'The Tenant,' when Vanda puts makeup on him, it's like 'Cul de Sac'; the dress of Tess and other details that are very Polanski. He fell in love with the play because it was so much him.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'

She was once described as an action verb disguised as a person,

Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

No form of communication is ever clearer than malicious public ridicule poorly disguised as interest or concern.

He has enormous potential and an aggressive instinct disguised by his quiet demeanor. He really came on late in the fall.

Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Well, it developed into something very different than we thought it was going to be. Initially we saw it as a disguised anthology, with J'onn, the Watchtower and the concept of Justice League being the main things the shows had in common. Our mandate was simply to tell really good stories with very small groups of characters, usually featuring one or two of the new guys. As we were saying early on, one week we'd tell the best Booster Gold story we can, the next week the best Hawk and Dove story. But as the stories developed (particularly Stan Berkowitz and Bob Goodman's 'Fearful Symmetry'), we realized we had the makings of what would become the 'Cadmus arc,' a huge story that could span two seasons, a story that would have been impossible to tell in the old 'Justice League' format.

We believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity for us to grow, and we are growing to meet this challenge.

We are completely assured she will come to a complete recovery. We believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity to grow.

Those involved, including some arrested, were found to be people working for Syria, including Syrian soldiers disguised as civilians.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public,'' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

We do not know whether these were pirates disguised as military personnel in order to commit the crime. We need more time to clear up the matter.

There's no adequate treatment for him (at such a facility). That's just a jail disguised as a hospital. In a penitentiary, all you have to do is behave yourself . . .and you have to be released.

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Aquariums are popular because they fill what people are looking for in a vacation. There has been a trend toward family-oriented vacations and traditional type of vacations. People also want their vacations to have an educational component that is disguised as fun. When you are doing a big downtown revitalization project, it makes sense to have a flagship attraction that you can build around.

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

They played together. They really fit together well, and they disguised the coverage schemes well, and they were where they were supposed to be most of the day.

This ordinance is unfair to every visitor in Santa Cruz. It's thinly disguised loitering law that will be selectively enforced.

It's just a thinly disguised way to sell software, and actually, it's not that thin.

It's a thinly disguised campaign ad. It certainly amounts to a significant in-kind contribution to the governor's campaign.

It's a parts program in a thinly disguised cloak.

It is the other way around. You may have to buy your domain in order to protect your trademark or brand, and only then are the policies forced upon you. They are as yet vague and undefined, so yes, we are concerned about de facto regulation disguised as self-regulation.

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

The two had entered India from Bangladesh six months ago and disguised themselves as scrap dealers.

They at least could have disguised it. Maybe a shot clock could be good, but I see a lot of problems.

I'm disguised as a sailor; as French, Spanish and Chinese at different times; and even as an old woman wearing a scarf and wig to get closer to Hope.

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Louisiana. We need more reinvestment in people not corporate investment disguised as redevelopment.

I believe God was disguised as Michael Jordan today.

Health care fraud schemes disguised as legitimate business arrangements divert million of dollars away from patient care each year,

You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.

These pricing schemes are simply poorly disguised discrimination. Requiring Internet companies to pay for high-speed access to the Internet when they're already charging consumers for the same service means consumers will ultimately pay twice.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.