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• Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

  Rupert Everett

  Gay, Years, Age

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• Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

  Charles Fillmore

  Spiritual, Substance, Kind

  Charles Fillmore (2009). “Prosperity”, p.104, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Powerful, Artist, Literature

  Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie, March 18, 1857.

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• Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

  Megan Fox

  Lame, Wonder Woman, Jet

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• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

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• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Powerful, Historical, Ambitious

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.197, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

  John W. Gardner

  Teamwork, Government, Hardship

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Years, People, Woven

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Busy, Standing Out

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

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• I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, Growing, Becoming

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• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  O. Henry

  Ownership, Universal, Strands

  Strictly Business "A Rumble in Aphasia" (1910)

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• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Night, World

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• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Creation, Fingernails

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

  Michio Kaku

  Gun, Force Fields, Bullets

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Successful, Boys

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• Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Blessed, Looks

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• In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

  Robert Morgan

  Fiction, Language

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

  Novalis

  Spiritual, Literature, Connected

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• Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, People, Giving

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• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  Dan Rather

  Mother, Strong, Father

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• The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

  Mitt Romney

  Business, Moving, Government

  "Commentary: Stimulate the economy, not government" by Mitt Romney, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

  Rumi

  Lovers, Form

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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