Anna Louise Strong Quotes

Color deceives continuously.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

The world isn't what you think it is.

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

The plan is not what you think.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on.

The secret is that there is no secret.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.