Covering Quotes

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.

The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

I had some people say to me, you don't - you wouldn't give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle.

Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.