Visible Quotes
821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors
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Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It…
— George Pelecanos
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Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only…
— Michael Scott
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an…
— M. John Harrison
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
— Oscar Wilde
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The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was…
— Douglas Adams
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Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying…
— J. Maarten Troost
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often…
— Julia Cameron
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Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what…
— James Hillman
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The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge…
— Italo Calvino
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I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body
— Paulo Coelho
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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
— Ian Mcewan
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the…
— Pat Conroy
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which…
— Rene Magritte
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There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when…
— Jodi Picoult
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Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you…
— J R Ward
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive…
— R. D. Laing
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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is…
— Thomas Paine
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Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place…
— Patricia A. McKillip
Who Wrote These Visible Quotes
629 authors contributed a total of 821 Visible Quotes, led by these top contributors: