Translucidity Quotes & Sayings

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. — Ernie Harwell

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything. — Mona Simpson

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole. — Michael Josephson

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. — Carl Sagan

It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing for him to understand that they are the chief end of the Church, and therefore the chief end for which his congregation exists. It is only when this truth masters him in its spiritual power, that he will be able to give the subject of missions its true place in his ministry. — Andrew Murray

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. — Sean Penn

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. — Peter Singer

Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific. — Shinzo Abe

I can't be with someone and want them to think that I am worth it when I don't think I am. I need to find me. — Winter Travers

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas. — M.H. Rakib

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred. — George Armitage Miller

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties. — Muriel Spark

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. — Frantz Fanon

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience. — Jay Roach