Sight Quotes - Page 40

• Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

  Gail Caldwell

  Dog, Years, Settling

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.177, Random House

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• Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Believe, People, Curiosity

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• The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue. Acting as narrator and guide, Weston takes you on a trip to places familiar and obscure-New Orleans, the Sonoran desert, Mexico's Pacific coast, and the dark, impenetrable reaches of the soul. He shows off sights that chill the blood, and as with any good trip, the things seen and experienced along the way will stay with you for a lifetime.

  Jeff Mariotte

  Dark, New Orleans, Blood

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• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  Xander Berkeley

  Brother, Helping, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Daughter, Mean

  "Song: Grand Canyon (Educated Guess)". January 20, 2004.

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• Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

  Peter Straub

  Shots

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.140, Penguin

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• To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
  To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
  and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
  and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

  Wendell Berry

  Dark, Light, Wings

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.121, Counterpoint Press

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• An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fear, Men, Ugly

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• Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.937, Delphi Classics

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• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Pain, Mean

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away amongst scenes like these, Under the fans of the chestnut trees; Living my child-life over again, With the further hope of a fallen delight, Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Wise, Hope

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Men, Blood

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

  Robin McKinley

  Dark, Roots, Rose

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• I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

  Sue Wicks

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  Alyssa Milano

  Baseball, Games, Smell

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• There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Kids, Writing, Soul

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• We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.

  John of Salisbury

  Add, Sitting, Giants

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• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

  David Antin

  Meaningful, Children, Singing

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• No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Next

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Political, Politics

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

  Woody Allen

  Jobs, Artist, Goal

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• The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

  Booker T. Washington

  Class, House, Pages

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

  William Cowper

  Spirit, Breathe

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

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• It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Believe, Heart, Cheerful

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

  Hannah Arendt

  Real, Quality, Depth

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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