Chameleon Quotes

1. "My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize."
Author: Alexandra Roach

2. "And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon"
Author: Ally Carter

3. "I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool. I go to a school for spies."
Author: Ally Carter

4. "I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that."
Author: Amber Tamblyn

5. "Nature as chameleon"
Author: Bell Hooks

6. "I become a chameleon for wherever I am."
Author: Bob Saget

7. "As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type."
Author: Carmen Dell'Orefice

8. "I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'"
Author: Cindy Sherman

9. "I am filthy. I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the scabs and scales of leprosy, and covered with yellow pus.[...] A family of toads has taken up residence in my left armpit and, when one of them moves, it tickles. Mind one of them does not escape and come and scratch the inside of your ear with its mouth; for it would then be able to enter your brain. In my right armpit there is a chameleon which is perpetually chasing them, to avoid starving to death: everyone must live.[...] My anus has been penetrated by a crab; encouraged by my sluggishness, he guards the entrance with his pincers, and causes me a lot of pain."
Author: Comte De Lautréamont

10. "Foreign stars in the nights down there. A whole new astronomy Mensa, Musca, the Chameleon. Austral constellations nigh unknown to northern folk. Wrinkling, fading, through the cold black waters. As he rocks in his rusty pannier to the sea's floor in a drifting stain of guano. What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman."
Author: Cormac McCarthy

11. "I call myself a chameleon."
Author: Dan O'Brien

12. "I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak."
Author: David Boreanaz

13. "I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'"
Author: David Gallagher

14. "Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase."
Author: Gabrielle Roth

15. "To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon."
Author: Giancarlo Esposito

16. "I think a good rule of thumb for being true to your own convictions is this; don't do or champion anything in the name of a group that you wouldn't do or champion as an individual - for if you do so, you become a chameleon that fades into the colours of group think, and you compromise the autonomy of individuation."
Author: James Knight

17. "I should get 365 different t-shirts made up, each a slightly different color than the last, forming a gradient from green to blue. Then I should take a daily picture, and move down the color line accordingly, so that I can subtly age like a chameleon."
Author: Jarod Kintz

18. "We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
Author: John Locke

19. "A sweet gum tree is the chameleon of wood, it's corky exterior hiding it's inner ability to imitate anything from cherry to mahogany. But it's real value, one unrealized by most people, is it's deep red heart, steady and strong."
Author: Katherine Allred

20. "I love life way too much and find fun in almost anything. I'm a chameleon."
Author: Kellan Lutz

21. "?What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection?In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon."
Author: Kevin Kelly

22. "I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
Author: Lana Del Rey

23. "It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like."
Author: Laura Carmichael

24. "Wait," Wes says. "Are you to imply that our dear Chameleon is once again having premonitions by way of pottery?""I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't call me reptilian names," I say."Would you prefer it if I called you a freak?"
Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz

25. "Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment."
Author: Learned Hand

26. "There is a lizard called the chameleon that, as you probably know, can change color instantly to blend into its surroundings. Besides being slimy and clod-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word means 'able to blend in with any situation."
Author: Lemony Snicket

27. "Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me."
Author: Maggie Siff

28. "Yes. You see, the whole nature, shape and even the modern blue pigment of the TARDIS is so deeply unfamiliar to the primitive mind that, although the optic nerve registers its presence, the brain cannot decode what it is seeing. The primitive visual cortex is unable to relay information about it consciously to the viewer. In effect, even though her chameleon circuit is still damaged, she's as good as invisible. She'll be just fine."
Author: Marcus Sedgwick

29. "Clarence Hervey might have been more than a pleasant young man, if he had not been smitten with the desire of being thought superior in every thing, and of being the most admired person in all companies. He had been early flattered with the idea that he was a man of genius; and he imagined that, as such, he was entitled to be imprudent, wild, and eccentric. He affected singularity, in order to establish his claims to genius. He had considerable literary talents, by which he was distinguished at Oxford; but he was so dreadfully afraid of passing for a pedant, that when he came into the company of the idle and the ignorant, he pretended to disdain every species of knowledge. His chameleon character seemed to vary in different lights, and according to the different situations in which he happened to be placed. He could be all things to all men—and to all women."
Author: Maria Edgeworth

30. "I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on."
Author: Marisha Pessl

31. "She's a woman. Like a chameleon does, a woman quietly blends into all the parts of her life. Sometimes you can hardly tell she's there, she's so quiet going on about her business. Feed the baby. Muck the stables. Make soup from stones. Make a sheet into a dress. She doesn't count on destiny for anything. She knows its her own hands, her own arms, her own thighs and breasts that have to do the work. Destiny is bigger in men's lives. Destiny is a welcome guest in a man's house. She barely knocks and he's there to open the door. "Yes, yes. You do it," he says to destiny and lumbers back to his chair."
Author: Marlena De Blasi

32. "Everybody in life is a chameleon."
Author: Melanie Chisholm

33. "It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable."
Author: Naomi Campbell

34. "I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music."
Author: Nick Carter

35. "I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role."
Author: Oscar Isaac

36. "Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass"
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

37. "I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner."
Author: Philip Johnson

38. "I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings."
Author: River Phoenix

39. "When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over."
Author: Salman Rushdie

40. "Someone please tell me that we're not seriously having a friggin' debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon' at seven o'clock in the morning? (Xypher)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

41. "If I hear ‘Karma Chameleon' one more time, I swear I'm going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse's record. What does red, gold, and green have to do with anything anyway? (Gloria)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

42. "When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders."
Author: Stephan Pastis

43. "...a small piece of silk. It was at once iridescent and delicate, and shone with a colour no Occidental could ever have conceived....I held it in my hands, allowing it to cascade from my fingers. It was shot through with so many strands of colour that every time it moved its appearance changed: moonlight, emeralds and pearls all passed through my hands. This cold chameleon so transformed itself that I could scarcely believe it was the same piece of cloth."
Author: Tash Aw

44. "Take a tartan. Sprinkle it with confetti. Light it with strobe lights. Now take a chameleon. Put the chameleon on the tartan. Watch it closely. See?"
Author: Terry Pratchett

45. "GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws -- riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public -- knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.ROS: And talking to himself.GUIL: And talking to himself."
Author: Tom Stoppard

46. "If you want to last more than five minutes as a private investigator, you've got to have the instincts of a chameleon. Gumshoes that stand out in the crowd are as much use to the client as a chocolate chip pan."
Author: Val McDermid

47. "I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks;I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy.I can add colors to the chameleon,Change shapes with Proteus for advantagesAnd set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down."
Author: William Shakespeare

48. "Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat."
Author: William Shakespeare

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