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Quotes About Sight

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
~ Thomas Carlyle
she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.
~ Peter Moore
she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted.
~ Peter Moore
He didn't say anything else but felt pressure from inside from the sight he saw there—the girl on the table who acted as if she were not there, the men in the room, and things like ropes and wires, the most delicate parts of which they were made. And Remal trades in this. I drop out of a box, thin-skinned like a maggot, and a cold bastard like Remal, moving the ropes and wires inside his anatomy, steps on me.
~ Peter Rabe
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
~ Peter Shaffer
What do you think vision is?" she asked him. "You don't see a fraction of the things that surround you, and at least half the things you do see are deceptive. Hell, color doesn't even exist outside your own head. Vision's just plain wrong; it only persists because it works. If you're going to dismiss the idea of God, you better stop believing your own eyes in the bargain.
~ Peter Watts
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust, And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things! Grow rich in that which never taketh rust: Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light, That doth both shine, and give us sight to see.
~ Philip Sidney
What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
~ Adrian Edmondson
Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
~ Kajal Aggarwal
Guys are so visual.
~ Rachel Bilson
Men are visual creatures.
~ Talulah Riley
We live in a visual world now.
~ Diogo Morgado
I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
~ David Hewson
I have always had a predominantly visual approach to my environment.
~ Konrad Zuse
You are either visual or you're not.
~ Joel Grey
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
~ Roy H. Williams
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~ Ansel Adams
I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.
~ Isabella Bird
I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
~ Kat Dennings
will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.
~ Jorge Amado
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 Luís Borges