Quotes About Visibility

Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit

I didn't really see why people should look at me

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?

In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked at.

If an individual is completely isolated, but most important, completely visible, says Foucault, then power functions automatically. "[T]he surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; [ . . .] the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary.

Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in school. For me, that history was "written wrong" and needed to be corrected. My intention was to make them visible so they could be role models for others. To show how each, in his or her own way, dribbled gracefully around that obstacle in the narrow corridor.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

Bisexuality often needs an explanation. It isn't something you can often 'read' on a person, and because of that, bi people sometimes feel like an invisible part of the LGBTQIA community.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

I wouldn't like to be invisible for a day. But if I was... I'd probably be up to no good.

I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.

I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.

I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.

You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

Imagine that our hardships, our hurdles, our demons, our pain were spelled out for everyone around us to see. Imagine that each of us donned a sandwich board that itemized them.