#covered

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed. ↗

— Sophocles

#better #concealed #discovered #many #things

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#act #again #bill #called #capitol

You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#better #better off #buy #buying #covered

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#early #enough #i #imitate #me

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#bridge #destroyed #discovered #even #every

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#acting #being #belonging #break #discovered

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#more #more people #never #our #party