No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich 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
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
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert 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
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft… — Will Durant 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
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
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
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
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy 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
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George 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
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
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more… — George Will Copy Share Image
