Quotes About Invisibility

Will became a bush under a bush, a shadow among shadows, with two starlight rounds of glass, his eyes, holding the image of Jim calling up in a whisper toward the second floor windows (Bradbury 90). This quote shows that Will hid behind the bush so well that no one can see him, that he became a shadow among shadows. The phrase shadow among shadows is to show that no one can see him, he is a shadow in a shadow

There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small.

I miss that in the city you can walk outside your front door and there's people all around you. And they don't know a thing about you.You could be anyone.

Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it's not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they're too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It's not. It's deafening.

I am infatuated with the private life, and with anonymity; perhaps even invisibility.

How am I doing so far? she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. You're doing very well, Nick's lazy voice mocked. I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.

How am I doing so far? she asked, forc­ing a cheer­ful light­ness into her voice. You're doing very well, Nick's lazy voice mocked. I'm half con­vinced that I'm in­vis­i­ble.

Nobody ever worries about me the way they worry about Fudge. If I decided not to eat they'd probably never even notice!

I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.

I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. "Well? Can you see me?" "Yes, Bob, I can see you." She said my name. Bob. It makes me feel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, seen. And heard. Like I'm a person. Or whatever I am. I'm glad I'm not invisible after all.

The invisibility of noise is a direct consequence of causal thinking.

The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.

General James Gavin, the commander of the 82d Airborne Division in World War II, carried an M1 Garand rifle, then the standard American-infantry weapon of World War II. He advised young infantry officers not to carry any equipment that would make them stand out in the eyes of the enemy.

In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.

Thomas groaned at how invisible he'd become. "I love how you guys are just talking about me like i'm not here.

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

I became expert at making myself invisible.

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

An SEP,' he said, 'is something that we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That's what SEP means. Somebody Else's Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever notices anything anywhere!

When people barely notice you're alive, you're not likely to have any enemies.