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
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
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
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
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and… — Dick Costolo 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
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
