Quotes About Visibility

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to see them at all.

Q: Why do so many white people get lost skiing? A: It's hard to find them in the snow.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting.

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

Com diu John Berger en el seu fantàstic assaig «Per què mirem els animals?», estan fets perquè els animals hi estiguin exposats tothora a la nostra mirada (encara que els zoos actuals s'han < -o potser hauria de dir animalitzat?-, en disposar zones ocultes a la mirada de l'espectador), però també perquè no puguin mai retornar-nos la nostra mirada, o en tot cas, retornar-nos-la en situació d'igualtat.

Els zoos, com diu John Berger en el seu fantàstic assaig «Per què mirem els animals?», estan fets perquè els animals hi estiguin exposats tothora a la nostra mirada (encara que els zoos actuals s'han «humanitzat» -o potser hauria de dir animalitzat?-, en disposar zones ocultes a la mirada de l'espectador), però també perquè no puguin mai retornar-nos la nostra mirada, o en tot cas, retornar-nos-la en situació d'igualtat.

We have, it seems, shut the poor out of our minds and driven them from the mainstream of our society. We have allowed the poor to become invisible, and we have become angry when they make their presence felt. But just as nonviolence has exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, we must now find ways to expose and heal the sickness of poverty—not just its symptoms, but its basic causes.

Instead of submitting to surreptitious cruelty in thousands of dark jail cells and on countless shadowed street corners, he would force his oppressor to commit his brutality openly--in the light of day--with the rest of the world looking on.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

It did not take long here to realize that some had come just to be seen

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

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.