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Quotes About Visibility

If I had to see my face while I am writing this, I would not write it. When I was a child, I was encouraged to speak from behind a tree as if I were the tree, or speak as if up from out of the ground, or, as a white adult, to speak out from within a white adult—how easy that has made my life is almost invisible to me.
~ Sharon Olds
Be the light for all the world to see or be the darkness that hides in the shadows.
~ Sheila Parker
Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
~ Paloma Faith
The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.
~ Gina Bellman
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
~ Ian Mckellen
nearest their window was horribly visible
~ Mary Balogh
The new moon would soon leave little light to navigate by.
~ Mary Burton
Of course, Veronica had a lot of smart cracks stored up. She needed them. When she didn't have them, she was naked and everybody saw.
~ Mary Gaitskill
We've also bought three billboards, one over near the Bay Pines VA hospital, the other on I-75, north of the first Tampa exit, and the third on U.S. 19 in Clearwater.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
God, or the gods, are invisible, quite understandable. But holiness is visible, entirely.
~ Mary Oliver
Navy personnel began clamoring for it. To the embarrassment of many, the current Navy working uniform is a blue camouflage print. Unsure whether perhaps I was missing the point, I asked a Navy commander about the rationale. He looked down at his trousers and sighed. "That's so no one can see you if you fall overboard." No
~ Mary Roach
safety orange/red hunting jacket makes the hunter stand out to other hunters, to deer it may be more camo than store-bought camo.
~ Mary Roach
Trump's word piles fill public space with static, the way pollutants in an industrial city can saturate the air, making it toxic and creating a state of constant haze. The haze can be so dense that objects become visible only up close, but never in their entirety and never really in focus.
~ Masha Gessen
Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.
~ Maureen Johnson
But to the government, integration had come to mean acceptance of "British values," full stop. Britain's core national identity was enshrined in gender liberalism, women's physical visibility, an acceptance of homosexuality, and UK foreign policy, especially respect for Israel.
~ Azadeh Moaveni
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
~ Barack Obama
But suburbanization, probably more than any other single factor, hid the poor from view.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Some odd optical property of our highly polarized and unequal society makes the poor almost invisible to their economic superiors.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.
~ Stephen King
Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant!
~ Stephen R. Covey
Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant! Importance, on the other hand, has to do with results. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, your high priority goals.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Three lights should be fine. - Zachary Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse. - True MacDonald
~ Steve Alten
Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better.
~ Steve Krug
But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
~ Steven D. Levitt