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Quotes About Opaque

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.
~ L.J. Smith
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
~ Gary Wolf
Johnny Dandy starring Blake Headley and Patricia De Hammond had been running on Broadway at the Divinity Theater since Memorial Day weekend. Critics had meted their blows and yet. The dialogue and action were so shrouded in euphemism, so opaque in meaning and intention, alternately dull and
~ Colson Whitehead
Depuis une éternité j'étais rongé par un tourment opaque - une espèce de conviction floue qu'on m'avait pris quelque chose et que j'avais cheminé comme un somnambule pendant une partie de mon existence au bord d'un abîme sans fond. Et jamais je n'étais parvenu à en élucider l'origine.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.
~ Charlie Huston
From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.
~ China Mieville
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.
~ Heidi Roizen
The depthless postmodern surface incorporates fragments of once-meaningful codes and conventions that are now blankly cited without context or referent. The result is not a coherent aesthetic structure but an opaque and resistant pastiche.
~ Unknown
For that's all Gatorade ever tastes like—its color. Over the period that I had my stomach virus, I tried them all: blue, red, green, yellow, orange, and a new opaque one that tasted opaque.
~ David Sedaris
He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood.
~ Unknown
For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.
~ Dick Costolo
I was used to unhappiness, formless and opaque, stretching out to every horizon. But this had shores, depths, a purpose and a shape. There was hope in it.
~ Madeline Miller
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
~ Ivan Illich
Stone waited there in groundling form, his opaque expression somehow conveying a deep disgust with all of them, but especially Moon.
~ Martha Wells
Can you be a trifle more obscure? I think I almost understood what you said that last time.
~ Martha Wells