Quotes About Transparent

Grown men with hurt feelings are transparent creatures; grown men who feel dimly they have done something wrong are positively opaque.

It is a point of cunning, to wait upon him with whom you speak, with your eye; as the Jesuits give it in precept: for there be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet this would be done with a demure abasing of your eye, sometimes, as the Jesuits also do use.

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.

People were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.

Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith; for only in infinite resignation does my eternal validity become transparent to me, and only then can there be talk of grasping existence on the strength of faith.

There are no hidden depths to me.

I can't hide my feelings. I'm efficient. I've always been that way.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Now if you know anything, or one thing about Perez Hilton, I think, is that I am not fake and I keep it real.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

You've just got to be honest and straightforward.

To be honest, I've always been forthright.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

This particular citadel of the mighty was reached by a glass sided lift which ran up a completely transparent service core that allowed one—and one assumes that here one refers to one as one—to appreciate the view over Hyde Park which, after all, is what one has paid upward of ten million to enjoy.

I'm nothing if not honest.

All of my music is honest.