I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You… — Karen Armstrong 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
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain 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
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. — Langdon Brown Gilkey 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
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
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and… — Thomas Merton 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
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque." — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency,… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and… — James Cameron 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
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
