Seeing Quotes · Page 209

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

— Frank Herbert

Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided…

— Louis Agassiz

The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents…

— Kofi Annan

This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things…

— Anne Lamott

Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I…

— Deontay Wilder

Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than…

— Manu Ginobili

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

— Venus Williams

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I…

— Michael Connelly

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're…

— Debra Granik

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction…

— Geoffrey Zakarian

I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

— Nick Frost

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right…

— George Henry Borrow

I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

— Bill Hader

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an…

— Jonathan Jackson

I never imagined in my wildest dreams when I was 17 watching Van Halen at a Donington Park rock festival and seeing…

— Jason Bonham

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's…

— Edward Ruscha

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us.…

— Oliver Sacks

I love being around the recruits. I like seeing them in the office. I like having the 1-on-1 conversations with them.

— Mack Brown

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

— Marlene Dietrich

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about.…

— Eric Schlosser

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page…

— Donald Margulies

A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at…

— Fatboy Slim

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My…

— David Oyelowo