Jonathan Miller Quotes

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

who is invisible enough to see you

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

What you sees, is what you gets.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

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.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

I have to be seen to be believed

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there.

You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Out of sight is out of mind.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.