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Quotes About Invisible

I really never get recognized at all for anything.
~ Jennifer Ehle
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.
~ Rodney Crowell
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
~ Adrienne Rich
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
~ John Oates
It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.
~ Alex Hogh Andersen
The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
~ George Orwell
It is so with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. More than anyone else, perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of the manual worker, not only because his work is so exaggeratedly awful, but also because it is so vitally necessary and yet so remote from our experience, so invisible, as it were, that we are capable of forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins.
~ George Orwell
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency
~ George Washington
A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.
~ Giorgio Moroder
Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns—when someone puts a hand down, pushes open one particular gate, and steps through. A man saying no instead of yes, two hands grasped on a dark street.
~ Sarah Blake
Q: What's invisible and smells of worms? A: Bird farts.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What's invisible and smells like carrots? A: Easter Bunny farts.
~ Scott McNeely
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
~ D. H. Lawrence
a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see 'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear 'em talk; and when they're
~ Mark Twain
Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable. Not important or particularly valuable.
~ Markus Zusak
he had the ability to appear in the background, even if he was standing at the front of a queue.
~ Markus Zusak
I'm sure you've met people like this, he had the ability to appear in the background, even if he was standing at the front of a queue.
~ Markus Zusak
The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM
~ Marshall McLuhan
Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The groundrules, pervasive structure, and over-all patterns of environments elude easy perception
~ Marshall McLuhan
Happiness writes white: it doesn't show up on the page.
~ Martin Amis
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabía usted dónde mirar y por eso se perdió todo lo importante.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
De hele wereld is vol mensen die hun hele leven op zoek blijven naar het wonder van de liefde zonder het ooit te zien. Het is heel simpel en vanzelfsprekend, maar onvindbaar voor wie ernaar zoekt.
~ Arthur Japin
In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment.
~ Arthur Koestler