Quotes About Transparency

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

Too much truth got in the way.

Ask me no questions and I'll spell you no lies, she said.

We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there. OBITUARY One of the largest sheep ranches in northern Wyoming went under this week.

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

To be simple is no small matter.

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Ce monde d'objets révèle de façon spectaculaire la partie non mortelle des êtres mortels. Tout se passe comme si la stabilité du monde se faisait transparente dans la permanence de l'art

Sólo se puede confiar en las palabras si uno está seguro de que su función es revelar y no ocultar.

But he hasn't got anything on, a little child said.

Il mare appariva come una volta eterea, come un cielo solido e senza stelle sotto di noi, e nell'aria trasparente si perdeva nell'immensità; nessuna striscia, scura o luminosa, limitava l'orizzonte; c'era una chiarità, una vastità infinita, che non si può dipingere né descrivere, se non nella profondità eterna del pensiero.

But he hasn't got anything on! the whole town cried out at last.

Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.

Hoyt?" Hoyt turned back around. "So there's no misunderstanding," Carlson said. "I don't believe a word you just said. We clear?" "Crystal," Hoyt said.

The ugly truth was better than the fanciful lie.

The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

We are totally open kimono with regulators.