Bent Quote by Michel de Montaigne

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

— Michel de Montaigne

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

— John Dryden

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's…

— Margaret Kilgallen

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

— Kate Chopin

The most straight seems curved.

— Laozi

You see two sides to a person. The side you want to see and the side they show you.

— Anonymous

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

— Ellen Meloy

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a…

— Terry Pratchett

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“How do the eyes see? I don’t think the scientists have a clue about that one. There is a science within science – that’s…

— Art Hochberg

“If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to…

— Jean Genet