Quotes About Translucent

#1. A dismal omen: ... this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.

Kathleen Maher

#2. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Annie Dillard

#3. Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.

Colleen McCullough

#4. She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

Scott Lynch

#7. That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Marcel Proust

#8. you?" "Jealousy. It's toxic." "How about lying, which is all you ever do. Over and over again." "You need to start putting this on every time you go out, even on overcast days in the dead of winter." The viscous translucent lotion Carrie dribbles into her palm looks like semen. "And

Patricia Cornwell

#9. the way the dew sparkled as if a careless hand had spilled a thousand translucent gemstones on the lush green blades

Nalini Singh

#10. The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

Arjuna Ardagh

#11. It was as if you could see into the sky, through it's layers and into it's core. Layers of stars, translucent blanket upon blanket. The beauty was overwhelming. The wind blew her hair, and she willed herself to stop, to breathe, to feel.

Deborah Rodriguez

#12. A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

Arjuna Ardagh

#13. An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

Robert Henri

#14. But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Bill Viola

#16. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

Julie Gregory

#17. Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

Bobbi Brown

#18. The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Peter Wilson

#19. Maybe if we both wish hard enough, I will become invisible, with watery veins and glass bones. My translucent heart will beat on but my father will not notice me. He sees only my mother in the spaces around him.

Corrine Jackson

#20. Through its "Bondi blue" (named for the evocative tropical waters of Bondi Beach, near Sydney, Australia) translucent plastic exterior, a buyer could see the inner workings of the computer, its rigorously arranged wires and circuit boards loaded with chips that looked like 3-D maps of cities.

Brent Schlender

#21. A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

Clarice Lispector

#22. Years of solitude had taught him that, in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day, not even in jail or in the hospital, which does not bring surprises, which is not a translucent network of minimal surprises.

Jorge Luis Borges

#23. Glamour is translucent - not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn't give us a completely clear picture.

Virginia Postrel

#24. I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. It's kind of sad. Okay you don't think you'll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

Mitch Hedberg

#25. The problem of the theologian is to keep his symbol translucent, so that it may not block out the very light it is supposed to convey.

Joseph Campbell

#26. Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,

John Milton

#27. But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

Sallie Tisdale

#28. Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath.

Sarah Ockler

#29. I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

Michael Connelly

#30. The storms inside uncoil
into sky held calm by far seeing eyes
Memories dressed in the translucent
trickery of the mind,
so as to wear life upon themselves,
give up their tired dance and run
into free frequency

Tamara Rendell

#31. That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens.

Arjuna Ardagh

#32. Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.

Ilona Andrews

#33. Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.

John Milton

#34. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.

Arjuna Ardagh

#36. His hands massaged my back as I looked into his eyes. His eyes were the strangest color of grey. They were almost a translucent grey/blue.

Scott Hildreth

#37. Every time I read a book, especially one that grabs my gus, there is another translucent layer added to what makes me, me.

Arlaina Tibensky

#38. Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.

Nicholas Murray

#39. But Vikram had seen through every facet, holding me against the light as if I truly were translucent, and instead of making me feel as if I had been looked through and found wanting, I felt . . . seen.

Roshani Chokshi

#40. The things of the world knew so much more than we did and lived them more truly. The thorn trees had no grief or fear. The constellations didn't fight or hold themselves back, nor did the translucent hook of the moon. Everything was momentary and endless.

Paula McLain

#41. I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER

Colleen Hoover

#42. All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

Sarah Hall

#43. After applying foundation and a little blush, dust your face with translucent powder, then mist skin with a rosewater spray and lay a Kleenex over for a second. It makes your face seem flawless in a way that looks as if you aren't wearing any makeup.

Liv Tyler

#44. A fine meal ... is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

Alexis Lichine

#45. I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.

Arjuna Ardagh

#46. His old riot of black hair was now a translucent scrim of white, but his blue eyes still threw sparks.

Laura Hillenbrand

#47. The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.

Cormac McCarthy

#48. Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.

Deb Caletti

#49. For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

Rena Sofer

#50. The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. Outside the greater rivers flowed, the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, and they would flow forever, but not so the rivers in her father's hand. Too soon that current would grow still.

George R R Martin

#51. The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, with wide eyes, high cheekbones, and a long, thin nose. Sometimes you could still catch sight of that beauty, and it was like looking through enchanted glass.

Sarah Addison Allen

#52. When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Ken Follett

#54. The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.

Isabel Allende

#55. A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.

Tennessee Williams

#56. Life is like a snowflake - transient, translucent, adventurous, ephemeral, and beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#57. She was asleep. In my car.
I stood next to the passenger side for a minute, looking down at her. The sun made her skin seem translucent and bloodless. For a moment, it didn't matter why I was falling in love with her. Just that I was.

Tessa Gratton

#58. Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#59. Skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels ...

John Geddes

#60. I could feel my tan skin, turning translucent with nerves,

Rachel Higginson