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
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 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
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. — Langdon Brown Gilkey 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
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. — Leonardo da Vinci 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
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want… — Valeria Golino 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
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it… — Ken MacLeod 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
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
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
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no… — Daniel Dennett 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
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
“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
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
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 human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque… — Jose Saramago 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
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent 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
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
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot 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
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
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
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 bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply… — William James 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
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
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
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
