Glimpse Quotes - Page 7

• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Long, Giving, Perspective

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• The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

  Amy Ray

  Crazy, Animal, Pigs

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  Vince Neil

  Men, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Psychics, Practice, Black

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• It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

  Kay Granger

  Impact, Government, Saws

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• I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

  David Bowie

  Art, Media, Faces

  Song: Changes, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Editing

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• Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.

  Simon Callow

  Trying, Might, Able

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• I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

  Eben Alexander

  Body, Firsts, Consciousness

  "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

  Patricia Briggs

  Writing, Novel

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Giving, Gone

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

  Andrew Niccol

  Years, Interesting, Guy

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.

  Leonora Speyer

  Believe, Anthology, Offers

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• Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

  Debra Evans

  Mother, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief - even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe - even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent - in the existence of a mystery.

  Iris Origo

  Grief, Believe, Suffering

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Essence

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Heart, Love Is

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

  Marsha Norman

  Dream, Independent, Laughing

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• Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164

  Martin Buber

  Mean, Addresses, Eternal

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• Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

  Marcel Proust

  Mistake, Heart, Eye

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove”, Vintage Classics

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• One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.

  Max Beckmann

  Two, Magic, Dimensions

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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