Sight Quotes
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.
I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.
When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content.
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.
God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight
Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.
Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
