Invisible Quotations

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Invisible Boy was fun. Everybody else's character, they knew where they were at already as a superhero. But invisible boy's character, you kind of grow up with him within the movie.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.

There are various grades of spiritual sight. One grade enables a man to see the ordinarily invisible ether with the myriads of beings that invest that realm. Other and higher variants give him the faculty to see the desire world and even the world of thought while remaining in the physical body.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being alien to it created a sense of isolation from the people we're close to. There were all these invisible barriers that were tough to reach through. So we ended up with songs like 'Alone, Jealous, and Stoned,' about how our emotions propel us toward these conflicts and away from the people we love.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

When done well, software is invisible.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

We want students to cross invisible boundaries of race, color, religion and ethnicity.

The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.