My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick deWitt 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
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to… — Anne Nesbet Copy Share Image
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle 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
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
From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not. — Nina Garcia 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
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
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
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
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
Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical… — Honor Harger 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
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
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
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
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
If you look at the portion of the GPU available to compute throughout the frame, it varies dramatically from instant to instant.… — Mark Cerny 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
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
What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and… — Noah Feldman 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
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
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
“However, if application A is opaque and application B provides a rich set of observability tools, it’s very likely that application B… — Brendan Gregg Copy Share Image
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image