Unseen Qualities Quotes

We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.

There are lot of shades about me that people don't know. There are many things people don't know. I don't know if people will like me or not.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

People see me as something I'm not.

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.