No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist,… — Miles Young Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. — James Rickards Copy Share Image
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If… — Roberta Smith Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion,… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Copy Share Image
“nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look--my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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