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Seeing Quotes by Annie Dillard
- When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it…
- It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
- The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to…
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- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.… — Christian Bale
- Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you… — Dave Barry
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas… — Mary Ritter Beard