Women are ‘expected’ to have skinny waists yet still be voluptuous. People surrounding us tell us we need to eat but then look at us in disgust if we cross the invisible line of overeating.
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more – the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
The thing that I’ve decided is, I don’t want to be invisible, but I’d like to be transparent. I want people to see what I’m thinking and see through me.
The interior nature of ‘Basic Black’ is central to its unfolding. Shirley Kaszenbowski, regarded from the outside, is the embodiment of the invisible woman. She is in her early forties, long married, with two children.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I’m perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.
Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.
There are stereotypes – it’s like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
The resulting prints of ‘History’s Shadow’ make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow’s mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.
If ‘Mystery Train’ is my Nixon book and ‘Lipstick Traces’ my Reagan book, ‘Invisible Republic’ is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he’d done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.
The invisible and unseen has always fascinated us humans.
Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.
After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.
When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible or counted out. But for this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known.
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we’re invisible on TV – everything is either black or white.
Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people’s attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
I’m not one of those New Age types that believe ‘it’s all meant to be’ and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You’re actually able to see settlements and tombs – and even things like buried pyramids – that you might not otherwise be able to see.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting – either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation – stigmatizes their children as the products of ‘single parenthood’ and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.
I think if you don’t have a style, it makes you invisible in football.
‘Waiting For Guffman’ was different right away from ‘Spinal Tap,’ because we didn’t show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.
Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, ‘What does my brain actually have to do to make me become asleep? What is the difference between that state and this? Why is the weird, invisible change not happening tonight?’
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.
It’s hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I’m writing about, and on the other hand, they’re saying their lives are a world away.
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.
We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.
It’s very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years – I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
I think ‘Invisible’ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite ‘wire,’ even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.
I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where black women were furthest from the standard of beauty, in an American culture where trans women of color were invisible.
The ‘that’s right’ breakthrough usually doesn’t come at the beginning of a negotiation. It’s invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you’ve said. To them, it’s a subtle epiphany.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: ‘Reserved for Europeans Only.’
Veterans want the choice to use age-old practices like yoga, meditation and acupuncture, but they should also benefit from scientific advances like detecting the biomarkers that will allow us to better treat the invisible wounds of war.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people’s houses. It’s naive to think you won’t carry anything into your life.
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there’s snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.
I don’t always like walking down the street and making sure that I smile and say hello to everybody who’s walking their dog in the opposite direction. But I do do it. And it’s a small, tiny thing to do. But to me, it means ‘I see you. You’re not invisible to me.’
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
I think Direct Cinema’s trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it’s about trying to make something invisible visible – the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
