Sight Quotes - Page 18

• The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Children, Astonishment, Know Me

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• ...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

  John Muir

  Building Up, Individuality, Sound

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.350, Library of America

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• Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cat, Magic, Lasts

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• Once you let yourself believe that you've gotten to the top, you've lost sight of the real goal. Which is to keep climbing no matter what. And by climbing, I don't mean trying to out do yourself with even more accomplishments. Instead, what I mean is that just when we think we have done something well, we should start looking at the other areas of our lives that need attention.

  David Archuleta

  Real, Believe, Mean

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• These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

  Ian Mcewan

  Memories, War, Lasts

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• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Queens, Cheer

  Robert E. Howard (2008). “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard”, p.158, Del Rey

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• What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Black, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

  Victor Hugo

  Heaven, Earth, Easy

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

  Maureen Johnson

  Parent, Flying, Would Be

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• I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

  Philippa Gregory

  Country, Men, Helping

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 2: The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Other Queen”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.

  Steven Erikson

  Past, Darkness, Pearls

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• A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let go. Not now. The Rat Dragon howled, his heavy blue force driven back by the onslaught of sinuous gold. Raw,rejoicing energy flooded my seven centers of power; opening,pushing, seeking. And behind it all, a presence exulting in the joy of release and reunion. I looked up and finally my mind-sight was clear. I could see the Mirror Dragon. My Dragon.

  Alison Goodman

  Letting Go, Wall, Mirrors

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.310, Penguin

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• Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

  Rachel Caine

  Two, Want, Faces

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.865, Penguin

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• There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, Forever, Soul

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• Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

  E. B. White

  Well Said, Abomination, Wells

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.188, Cornell University Press

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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• I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Names, Lips

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Talking, Feet, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Men, Echoes

  "Fictional character: Humbert". "Lolita", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Thinking, Love Is

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.85, Xist Publishing

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Fog

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• I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Farewell, Glasses

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Food, Earth

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• I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  "George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection".

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• A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Religious, Essence, Doubt

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