Quotes About Visibility

In the beginning there was nothing, and then God created light. There was still nothing but you could see it a lot better.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

Looking at international economic life brings to mind the ancient image of the world riding on the back of a turtle—only in reality, the turtle is a woman. She inches along, laboring just beneath the level of economic visibility, often blaming herself for not being able to bear more weight. Occasionally, she retreats into her shell, as if withdrawal were the only form of rebellion. But only when she upsets its balance will the world roll off her back.

Commercial and infrastructure investment by Chinese firms, meanwhile, has increased the visibility of the People's Republic throughout the Levant and North Africa.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.

People with big personalities can make very big targets of themselves.

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

Malcolm—the world's much more like me than it is like you. People recognize me. They see me in their mirror. But they don't hardly ever see you. You're not in the mirror with them.

I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were hard for me, I wouldn't be doing this work. Rather, I think I'd be more sad when a day come when people don't recognize me.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

I feel that if I am uncomfortable, it will show on my face.

I wanted to write or direct more than I wanted to be in front of the camera. I still occasionally feel completely uncomfortable being looked at.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I'd never have imagined it when I was younger. A trans woman on the cover of 'Time?' That is unfathomable to the 15-year-old me.

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

The truth is like Light, it can never be Hidden. Is a matter of time

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.