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Quotes About Visibility

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
and if men looked at her she stiffened feeling her jaws tighten her blood beat with dread and if men did not look at her, if their glances slipped past her as if she were invisible, she felt yet a deeper dread: a conviction of not merely female but human failure.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If people are seeing us more than they are seeing Christ, then something is out of balance.
~ Wayne Barber
I'm at the mercy of Editors, who are hidden behind panels and are never seen by mortal eyes.
~ Weldon Burge
You can't hide poverty and love because they appear to people easily and fast.
~ Wendo Musaly
I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. "Well? Can you see me?" "Yes, Bob, I can see you." She said my name. Bob. It makes me feel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, seen. And heard. Like I'm a person. Or whatever I am. I'm glad I'm not invisible after all.
~ Wendy Mass
Vuoi che ti dica una cosa? Più lo si analizza, corpo moderno, più lo si esibisce, meno esso esiste. Annullato, in misura inversamente proporzionale alla sua esposizione.
~ Daniel Pennac
sky dribbled just enough to make the windshield wipers squeal at the slowest setting.
~ Daniel Price
In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.
~ Daniel Silva
What made her angry was art that no one looked at, things that were hidden that needed to be seen.
~ Dara Horn
I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.
~ Dave Attell
I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!
~ Dave Beard
given the loose-fitting clothing of the time, perhaps a great deal of Zacchaeus would have been visible to the crowd below.
~ James Martin
What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.
~ James P. Carse
Thus, the theatricality of machinery: Such movement is but a change of scenes. If effective, the machinery will see to it that we remain untouched by the elements, by other travelers, by those whose towns or lives we are traveling through. We can see without being seen, move without being touched.
~ James P. Carse
I didn't argue. "What time was it when you saw them?" Mike glanced at Bobby. "About, um, eight-thirty." "You must be part owl," I said. "Because it's hard to see in the dark.
~ James Preller
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
~ Douglas Coupland
Poirot looked up at the sky. 'When the sun shines you cannot see the moon,' he said. 'But when the sun is gone–ah, when the sun is gone.' Cornelia's mouth fell open. 'I beg your pardon?' 'I was saying, Mademoiselle, that when the sun has gone down, we shall see the moon. That is so, is it not?
~ Agatha Christie
Look at the moon up there. You see her very plainly, don't you? She's very real. But if the sun were to shine you wouldn't be able to see her at all. It was rather like that. I was the moon…When the sun came out, Simon couldn't see me any more…He was dazzled. He couldn't see anything but the sun–Linnet.
~ Agatha Christie
It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent.
~ Alain Badiou
You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.
~ Alain Prost
They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do
~ Alan Gratz
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
~ Alan Jay Lerner
I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.
~ Calum Scott