Sight Quotes - Page 21

• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

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• John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Confused

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• My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

  Deb Caletti

  Running, Father, Mean

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Feet, Steel

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• To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

  Nicole Krauss

  Eye, Names, Space

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.188, Anchor

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• 'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'

  Neal Stephenson

  Ocean, Fire, Two

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, Chapter 51, 1992.

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• It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Hearing, Quitting, Manners

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• I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Lust, Firsts

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.

  John Grisham

  Past, Feet, Voice

  John Grisham (2010). “A Painted House”, p.75, Random House

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• The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

  Kevin Hearne

  Hug, Sopranos, Modern

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• Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Book, Men

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• You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

  Holly Black

  Past, Dawn, Would Be

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

  Neal Stephenson

  Inspire, Levels, Politeness

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.303, Spectra

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• No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.99, RosettaBooks

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• He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Rifles, Looks, Assassins

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.40, Dell

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• the sight of me is good for sore eyes

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Sore Eyes

  Charles Dickens (2012). “David Copperfield”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

  Sue Miller

  Forgiving, Needs, Done

  Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.211, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.

  Megan Hart

  Morning, Flower, Sunset

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• Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry

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• When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Heart, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.210, Penguin

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• You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You thought of me every waking minute. You dreamed about me. You couldn't stand it. You couldn't let such wonderfulness out of your sight. You had to follow me." I turned to Cinnamon. He licked my nose. "Don't give yourself so much credit. It was your rat I was after." She laughed, and the desert sang.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Giving, Desert, Cinnamon

  Jerry Spinelli (2001). “Stargirl”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Dedication

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

  Louisa May Alcott

  Enjoy, Speculation, Provoking

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• Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

  Laini Taylor

  Wings, Feelings, Made

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