#invisible

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! ↗

— Gene Cernan

#anchors #background #could #five #four

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #i #i am #invisible #me

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

— Felix Frankfurter

#exercise #invisible #power #real #rulers

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

— Rooney Mara

#engage #everything #i #i can #invisible

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#became #between #case #completely #difference

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain. ↗

— Toba Beta

#invisible-hand #puppeteer #men

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy, use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. ↗

— Toba Beta

#strategy #war #strategy

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. ↗

— Christian Bale

#background #damn #disappear #fade #feel

I’ve got a flesh-colored tattoo. I drew it myself. You should see it sometime, if only you could see it (it’s invisible).
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— Jarod Kintz

#drawing #flesh #invisible #tattoo #art

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves. ↗

— Brad Bird

#big #feel #feeling #heavy #i