Invisible Quotes - Page 27

• When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Weed, Rose

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.71, Penguin

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• In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

  Erica Jong

  Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

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• My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Moving Forward, Believe

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• This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

  Charles August Lindbergh

  Government, President, Bankers

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• And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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• The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Sweet, Nature

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Men, Weather

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Healing, Stories, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.62, North Atlantic Books

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• I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

  Rooney Mara

  People, World, I Can

  "Scarlett Johansson Was Too Sexy For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Keys, Imagination

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Fantasy, Remember

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• To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, Acceptance, Light

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• As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

  Terence Stamp

  Boys, Ability, Not Sure

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• My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.

  Steve Valentine

  Book, Blow, Cards

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• Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

  Roger Ebert

  Class, America, Film

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Emotion, Natural, Materials

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.116, Picador

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• Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

  Jared Spool

  Thinking, Air, Hands

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• A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is keeping the world economy from total deterioration. And you get a sense that it is all now truly left to Adam Smith's invisible hand--it's beyond any country's ability, and institution's ability to control.

  Jeffrey Garten

  Country, Hands, Talking

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• I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

  Bruce Davison

  Intelligent, Way, Whole Life

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 28, 2003.

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• What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

  David Doubilet

  Photography, Voice, Giving

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• I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

  Lisa Lopes

  Soul, Hug, Needs

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• Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Space, Flow, Infinity

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Laughter, Memories

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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