Translucence Quotes

#1. They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

Anais Nin

#2. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

James Thurber

#3. In the cups, one after another, glistening disks rose, black without translucence.

Samuel R. Delany

#4. According to your sources
if you strike life with the radical
when it cracks
the inside's going to glow
with the translucence of red wine.

Below us people in dark coats stream home,
faces unavailable for comment.

Lori Lamothe

#5. He had a colorless translucence about him that made him seem as if he were in the earliest stages of progressive invisibility.

Laura Hillenbrand

#6. I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

Arjuna Ardagh

#7. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

Alexander Pope

#8. One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.

Rob Machado

#9. The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#10. For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals.

Jules Evans

#11. When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.

Mark McKinnon

#12. I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

Judi Dench

#13. Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

Lawrence O'Donnell