Quotes About Visibility

rain obliterated the outlines of the houses

Fog is a cloud on the ground.

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

lo que está oculto es para nosotros los occidentales lo más verdadero que lo que es visible

When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But she noticed other things, too -- the way she herself felt acutely visible with the baby in her arms, and the way some people's faces lit up when they saw a child. His warm weight was like living ballast, thrumming with energy, giving her substance. Folks were drawn to that.

Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.

Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and

Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.

When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don't impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don't look like dormitories.

the age of information, my dear," my mother said with justifiable pride when they had done their work at their computers, "everyone's garbage is on display for all to see, and all you need to know is how to look.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing.

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.

You're not invisible if you talk.

were the poor people so poor they could not be seen?   were the black people so many they could not be counted?

A king needs to be seen. And to be seen to be seen.

Renée said it was easier to spot a moose in New Hampshire than a black person. She said she was used to being stared at as if her head were on fire, people had been staring that way for years. The

Le gomme dell'auto erano così lisce che si poteva vedere quasi l'aria nelle ruote.

She wasn't invisible anymore. She'd stepped dead-bang into the spotlight, and she'd painted a big bull's-eye on her head.

Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.

Maybe because when you feel like nothing, you can't believe someone who's everything could possibly see the real you.

In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.