41 Visibility Quotes

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

I was a looker someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back- always everyone looking forward, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look over at you? Why would they care?

See the light ram through the gaps in the land. Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree 'Til you near him on the motorway And the tree begin to breathe.

On top of the world, Looking over the edge, You could see them coming. You looked too small In their big, black car, To be a threat to the men in power.

My chief request is that anyone who is a servant of God be ready and willing, to carry this letter forward; may it never be hidden or stolen by anyone, but rather, may it be read aloud before the whole people- Yes, even when Coroticus himself is present.

A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men that can say they have seen that spectacle.

Hidden talent counts for nothing.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Flash Teacher: How to spot: He'll be the only member of staff who drives a customized Lada.

'I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy,' he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. 'I've delivered your cat,' he continued, 'from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper.'

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

I must have looked like a ghost, Cause' something frightened me. And since then I've been so good at vanishing.

There are now many invisible people on stage.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

He had often noticed that six months' oblivion amounts to newspaper-death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a man wants it, than rest, profound as the grave.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

It is better to be looked over than being overlooked.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

She let him look, sure that he wouldn't see, Blind creature; and awhile he didn't see. But at last he murmured, 'Oh,' and again, 'Oh.'

...Gay brothers and sisters,...You must come out. Come out...to your parents...I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! Come out to your relatives. ..come out to your friends...if indeed they are your friends. Come out to your neighbors...to your fellow workers...to the people who work where you eat and shop...come out only to the people you know, and who know you. Not to anyone else. But once and for all, break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared by the votes from Dade to Eugene.

Invisible Man