Joe Henderson Quotes

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about." "I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'" Dimitri sighed.

When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.

So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries".

How can you hide from what never goes away?

The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

Are you running away from something?