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Quotes About Visible

Nitric acid. Lampblack. Furniture, like all living things, acquired marks and scars over the course of time. The effects of time, visible and invisible.
~ Donna Tartt
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
~ Douglas Adams
As you gazed into the polished surface of the marble the vague forms of instruments became visible, and as you touched them the instruments materialized instantly under your hands. Looked at from the correct angles the mirrors appeared to reflect all the required data read-outs, though it was far from clear where they were reflected from.
~ Douglas Adams
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
~ Caroline Knapp
A girl can dream, can realize, high on heroines, that she is mortal and therefore fearless; that sanity supplies the ground bass to the wildest singing; that breezes made visible make the finest winds.
~ Rachel Wetzsteon
The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Evolution is the external and visible manifestation of the differential survival of alternative replicators (Dawkins 1978a). Genes are replicators; organisms and groups of organisms are best not regarded as replicators; they are vehicles in which replicators travel about.
~ Richard Dawkins
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
~ Franz Kafka
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
~ Marianne Williamson
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
~ Edvard Munch
What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.
~ Giorgio Morandi
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.
~ Hubert Reeves
Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?" Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.
~ Rick Riordan
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.
~ Lydia M. Child
I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.
~ Jaume Plensa
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
~ Jean Genet
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.
~ Zhuangzi
As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou
~ William Gurnall
Look at all Nature, through all its Height and Depth, in all its Variety of working Powers; it is what it is for this only End, that the hidden Riches, the invisible Powers, Blessings, Glory, and Love of the unsearchable God, may become visible, sensible, and manifest in and by it.
~ William Law
The classical players who think all popular music is simple tend not to hear the nuances involved, so naturally they can't play very well in that style. Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
~ David Byrne
Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
~ David Byrne
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.
~ Thomas Traherne