Seeing Quotes - Page 20

• Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Atheism, Invisible, Clairvoyant

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.36, University of Georgia Press

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• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Common Sense

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• When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Opportunity, People, Share

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• I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

  Bjork

  Together, Different, Way

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2012.

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• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Vision

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Husband, Educational, Book

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2006.

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• I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Hate, Shy, Paper

  "Portrait of the artist: Andrea Bocelli, tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Vision, Precision, Uniqueness

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• Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.

  Jo Bonner

  Recovery, Two, Hurricanes

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Vision, Mysterious

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

  David Brainerd

  Father, Heart, Recovery

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.13

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• I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

  Jeff Bridges

  Couple, Way, Film

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• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Everything Happens For A Reason, Agency

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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• You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

  Luke Bryan

  Issues, Fans, Clubs

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• I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Country, Holiday, Nashville

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• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

  John Burroughs

  Music, Nature, Health

  John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”

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• Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

  Tim Burton

  Simplicity, Childhood, Trying

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• It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fun, Educational, Learning

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• Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, Casting, Persons

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

  Amanda Bynes

  Movie, Winning, Who I Am

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

  Nicolas Cage

  Jobs, Children, People

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