Foil Quotes

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? (Tracey Ullman)
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. View quote
William Hazlitt
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. View quote
Peter T. King
I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. View quote
Kevin Costner
Of the two classes of people, I hardly know which is to be regarded with most distaste, the vulgar aping the genteel, or the genteel constantly sneering at and endeavouring to distinguish themselves from the vulgar. ... True worth does not exult in the faults and deficiencies of others; as true refinement turns away from grossness and deformity, instead of being tempted to indulge in an unmanly triumph over it. ... Real power, real excellence, does not seek for a foil in inferiority; nor fear contamination from coming in contact with that which is coarse and homely. View quote
William Hazlitt
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. View quote
Karl Rove
As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue. View quote
Philip Sidney
It sounds like typewriters eating tin foil being kicked down the stairs. View quote
Dylan Moran
Seeing you is like pulling teeth, and hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil! View quote
Brandon Boyd
And what's more wonderful, when big loads foil One ant or two to carry, quickly then A swarm flock round to help their fellow-men. (John Clare)
A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries. View quote
Martin Lindstrom
The United States is in sore need today of an aristocracy of intellect and service. Because such an aristocracy does not exist in the popular consciousness, we are bending the knee to the golden calf of money. The form of monarchy and its pomp offer a valuable foil to the worship of money for its own sake. A democracy must provide itself with a foil of its own and none is better or more effective than an aristocracy of intellect and service. View quote
Nicholas Murray Butler
I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead. View quote
Khloe Kardashian
Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch. View quote
Emeril Lagasse
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. View quote
J Tillman
When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be. View quote
Jessalyn Gilsig
The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore. View quote
Rick James
I need Thy presence every passing hour; What, but Thy grace, can foil the tempter's power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, oh, abide with me! View quote
Henry Francis Lyte
Foil hatred with goodness and love and make those enemy your true friends! (Mohammed Alkobaisi)
Tin foil as reality. View quote
Jay Leiderman
Since the revelations of NSA surveillance and mass data collection, Leiderman has consistently referred to this as the "tin foil age.” It is a reference to the days when if someone thought the government was spying on them they would be seen as crazy – the kind of person that would wear a tin foil hat to combat the government surveillance. Now that we are all aware that our government is collecting mass data on so many people, we don't think the tin foil hat wearing people were quite so crazy [sort of], hence "the tin foil age.”. View quote
Jay Leiderman
These are people who want to foil elections... Benghazi has been always defiant, and always will be despite the pain and fear. It will succeed. View quote
Salwa Bugaighis
Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country. View quote
Thomas Sankara