Quotation Explorer - 'Cover'

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. - Toba Beta
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina
Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration. - José Antonio Bowen
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. - William Shakespeare
The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam
The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam
Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume... - Deyth Banger
If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be surrounded by darkness but it does not cover you on top. Let the light shine down on you and let it lead the way out of darkness. - Ann Marie Aguilar
Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile? - Shawn Lukas
My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel. - Stewart Lee
Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped. - Once upon a time Belle
Don't make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things.""Isn't that called murder? - G.A. Aiken
gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body. - knight mayor
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile. - Hilary Duff
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read. - Maryrose Wood
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed. - De La Lastra's Law
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. - Gordon Atkinson
If Man is stranger to his own research however, he starts redefining the life to cover up his err,and finally in his run, at his last hour,asks himself "What is this all about?" and lets his hour pass over. - Ajay Chandan
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" - Hunter S. Thompson
Riches cover a multitude of woes. - Menander
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? - E.A. Bucchianeri
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door. - Mehmet Murat ildan
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. - Faith Sullivan
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow
One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine. - Ellen DeGeneres
Some of us cover to protect our bodiessome of us cover to protect our soulsin both cases,respect their choices. - Anjum Choudhary
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor - Solange nicole
I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave. - Howard Florey
The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! - Ashwin Sanghi
When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it... - Sanhita Baruah
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me! - Alvi Syahrin
Where would I find enough leatherTo cover the entire surface of the earth?But with leather soles beneath my feet,It’s as if the whole world has been covered. - Śāntideva
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
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. - Meister Eckhart
I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives. - V.C. Andrews
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. - Mahatma Gandhi
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. - Mae West
I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here. - Matt Groening
A match as a penBlood on the floor as inkThe forgotten gauze cover as paperBut what should I write?I might just manage my addressThis ink is strange; it clotsI write you from a prisonin Greece - Alexanderos Panagoulis
Act correctly. Incorrect action cannot be justified by incorrect action. An incorrect action taken to cover an incorrect action is doubly incorrect. - Compton Gage
If you judge art by its cover, then you efface the very essence of it - Evy Michaels
A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else. - Tyler Joseph
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. - Kanye West
The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life. - Israelmore Ayivor
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. - Eudora Welty
Beneath her self-control, though he did not guess it, was the impatience of the keen brain watching a slower brain laboriously cover the ground it had already traversed in a flash. - Agatha Christie
Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king. - J. Matthew Nespoli
A good friend will help you to discover the potentials you haven't uncovered. A bad friend will help you to cover up the potentials you have already recovered. Make your choice! - Israelmore Ayivor
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers. - Col. Thomas Aspinwall
I cover the floor with a thin layer of imagination so that i’ll always land softly. - Anna Jae
I do not fear of death because my world had lost it's colour and I had lost my happiness. But life goes on. So, I decided to cover the pain I suffer with a shiny,bright smile.I might look happy but you do not know what's going on inside. It's scary what a smile can hide, right ? - Anonymous
, Earth planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal] - John Muir
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. - De la Lastra's Corollary
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies. - Anne Perry
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. - John Foster Dulles
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. - Howard Zinn
Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines... - lauren klarfeld
Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie. - Ashwin Sanghi
This sheaf of paper with gaudy cover glued to the spine is not the book. The book is not an object on the table, it is an event in the readers mind.... The book, therefore is only finished when someone reads it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle
Never judge abook by just loking the cover - Jerry
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. - Alexis Carrel
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. - Hugh Elliott
Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract. - Jeffrey Tucker
What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? - DaShanne Stokes
Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams" This guy gets around more than Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, but this time, I think he's gone too far. Unfortunately, I can't put a cover of my book My Year in Oman with Mr. Williams' picture on the cover. - Matthew Heines
For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. - Thomas Pickering
My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment. - Britney Spears
your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind. - Sushil Singh
No light can cover the darkness of a liar's heart - Munia Khan
Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence - Sunday Adelaja
One thing that needs to carry in your pocket, all the time, by going through all the different experiences of life, either on spiritual or religious path or with your daily life is that, unless you experience yourself as God, there are more steps to cover ahead, on the journey called life. - Roshan Sharma
She will blind everyone with bright light to cover the truth ... - K. Al Balushi
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page. - Kim Lehman
Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness. - Debasish Mridha
when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page. - Nabil TOUSSI
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when the earth shall be filled with the glory of the God as the waters cover the sea. - Constance Savery
You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic. - Debasish Mridha
you are a crayon i am a highlighter,you may cover the world but i make it brighter. - whisper abend
The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover. - Susan Straight
The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges. - Nancy Byrd Turner
You know you’re dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn’t help to cover up a murder. - Rosen Trevithick
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein
There is much to discover that's not on the back cover! - E.A. Bucchianeri
He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest. - Lia Davis
Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. - George Alexiou
People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. - Kat Lehmann
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. - Al Franken
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. - Bible
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. - Jayce O'Neal
I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler
One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Islam doesn't ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them. - Junaid Raza
If you read the bible from cover to cover you will want to start it all over again. You find something new each time. - Amanda Penland
Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising. - Debasish Mridha
Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. - Israelmore Ayivor
Everyone is a different book, with a different cover, different contain but the question is do you dare to open it? - Deyth Banger
You can cover a great deal of country in books. - Andrew Lang
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. - Norman Manea
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.. - Andrew Davidson
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