Seeing Quotes - Page 29

• I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

  Will Rogers

  Father, America, Calling

  "Will Rogers' World : America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties - And Eighties and Nineties". Book by Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling, 1993.

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• A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

  Mickey Rourke

  Stuff, Materials, Edgy

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• After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Literature, Way

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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• You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Daughter, Mother, Nice

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Camouflage, Narrative

  "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

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• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

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• I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Writing, Museums

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• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Jesus, New York

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Century

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• 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Uplifting, Morning, New York

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• In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Hate, Teaching

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 1" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Soul

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

  Adam Sandler

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Kids

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• To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Caring, Stories

  "The week in fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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  I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Leadership, Believe

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Screens

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

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• I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

  Martin Scorsese

  Fall, Sowing, Empires

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• I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

  Martin Scorsese

  Editing, Shooting, Film

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Directors; Woody Allen; Martin Scorsese". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  Vikram Seth

  Past, Thinking, Important

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• And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.

  John Sexton

  Artist, Cameras, Looks

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• I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Night, Shoes

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