Quotes About Opacity

#1. Laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death,

John Steinbeck

#2. Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#3. All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!" exclaimed the alien.

Alan Dean Foster

#5. called The Flying Haldemans: Pity the Poor Private Pilot.

Ashlee Vance

#6. There were many markings in pencil, and those strange symbols again, dashed off, it seemed, revealing their opacity what a complex and abstract thing written language is.

Anne Rice

#7. Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

Gary Weiss

#8. Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Frantz Fanon

#9. Tagore's direct narrative prose is clear water. At times the light changes over it, a shadow passes, and when night falls the water too takes on night's opacity.

Sharmistha Mohanty

#10. I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Gillian Anderson

#11. Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.

Truth Devour

#12. Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#13. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. We tried to everything right, now we were forced to do everything wrong and it was working.

Augusten Burroughs

#15. Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

Vikrmn

#16. In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

Marcel Proust

#17. Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

Ralph Keyes

#18. We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

Barack Obama

#19. Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.

Stephanie Strickland

#20. Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Paul Singer

#21. Surely some revelation is at hand.

W.B.Yeats

#22. Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

Clark Coolidge

#23. Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity ... It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

Clifford Geertz