Opaque Quotes
So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me.
Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.
You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.