The Sight Quotes

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

We live by information, not by sight.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Sight is where the eye hits.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.

This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin' I think I'm gonna keep em

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.