The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

“However, if application A is opaque and application B provides a rich set of observability tools, it’s very likely that application B will be…

— Brendan Gregg

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

— Virginia Postrel

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

— Jacques Maritain

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the…

— Will Durant

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the…

— C. S. Lewis

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn.…

— Frank Herbert

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

— Glenn Ligon

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

— Sally Phillips

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

— Paul Auster

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.”

— Margaret Atwood

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

— Ivan Illich

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

— Leonardo da Vinci