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Quotes About Sight

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." —Rod Serling, opening narration, season two (and perhaps the better known version)
~ Douglas E. Richards
Boyd thought about this. "No, because my eyes would be smashed down on the 2D surface. So I'd only see a convex line, or maybe a straight one.
~ Douglas E. Richards
This "out of sight, out of mind" externalization of poverty and poison doesn't go away just because we've covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Making copy come alive How do you write vividly? You present your story in terms of things that can be verified by sensory perception. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch—these are the common denominators of human experience; these are the evidence that men believe.
~ Dwight V. Swain
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
~ Dorothea Lange
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
~ Fred Allen
All guns are the same to me—dark brown or black." He pointed to the sight again. "No," she said. "I have never seen a gun like that in his possession." She pointed dramatically to the sight.
~ Jim Bishop
We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.
~ Jim Henson
What leftists call the loss of the political is the fog they wander through because they've lost sight of the communist horizon.
~ Jodi Dean
Un tempo avevo occhi molto buoni. Quello che hanno visto è un altro discorso. L'esperienza mi ha insegnato che si può guardar succedere qualcosa senza nemmeno vederlo.
~ Anna Funder
Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home?...my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them…never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.
~ Anna Kavan
Shine mobilizes the interstitiality between sight and feeling, visuality and textuality.
~ Anne Anlin Cheng
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
~ Anne Carson
I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.
~ Anne Carson
and there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.
~ Anne Carson
Once you go blind, unfortunately, words are all you've got.
~ Anne Scott
I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Sou do tamanho do que vejo!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Seeing and hearing are the only noble things that life contains. The other senses are plebeian and carnal. The only aristocracy lies in not touching. Do not get too close — that is true nobility.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Porque eu sou do tamanho do que vejo. E não do tamanho da minha altura...
~ Fernando Pessoa
soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi estatura»
~ Fernando Pessoa
Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The
~ Flannery O'Connor
Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.
~ Flannery O'Connor