Quotes About Invisibility

Look, I don't do anything that these glamour guys do. The front pages never heard of me.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I'm happy when my name's not in the paper.

Secret Service agents wear suits to blend in with presidential visits, not stand out.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it's not a problem. There are a lot of Spanish people. If you go to Piccadilly or Oxford Circus, you hear lots of Spanish voices, but I'm not recognised much.

I walk all over Los Angeles and people seldom recognize me.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

And meanwhile everybody's wondering what this old woman with half her face drooping onto her shoulder is doing bagging their groceries. You have no idea how I envy you your cubicle. The invisibility of it. Let's not romanticize the cubicle, Pip said. This is the terrible thing about bodies. They're so visible, so visible.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

Everywhere you looked, there it wasn't.

In all my years here, no one's been able to remember my name when I'm introduced. No one has bothered. They usually see us as types, not as individuals." His

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see. Not until I sat in that room, with the dead vehicle that had carried my brother through his life, and for which I had always mistaken him.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

I felt on the periphery of high school culture; one of those invisible creatures that walk the campus. I think it was a lot worse for my parents.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you. It seemed to me that children are often treated in the same way, as witnesses whose presence was somehow not taken into account.