Sight Quotes
2271 Sight quotes by 1583 unique authors
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A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
— C.S. Lewis
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We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is…
— Keith Ablow
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
— Orhan Pamuk
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After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a…
— Susanna Clarke
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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in…
— Charles de Lint
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People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
— James A. Baldwin
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As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set…
— A. E. Housman
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no…
— Mary Roach
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Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the…
— Louisa May Alcott
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;…
— Thomas Mann
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Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them,…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to…
— Max Weber
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...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight…
— Tupac Shakur
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Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
— Alexander Pope
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Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
— SaigyÅ
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they…
— Neil Gaiman
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