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Quotes About Sight

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies
~ Tuomas Holopainen
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!' 'I'm all right, don't struggle I won't let it get to you.
~ Marianne Curley
Being Married does´t mean you have to give up your sight!
~ Marianne Curley
The disaster had fallen out of sight, like the train itself, and if the calm that followed it was not greater than the calm that came before it, it had seemed so.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
~ Mark Batterson
Why didn't someone hand those newly sighted people paints and brushes from the start, when they still didn't know what anything was? Then maybe we all could see color-patches too, the world unraveled from reason, Eden before Adam gave names. The scales would drop from my eyes; I'd see trees like men walking; I'd run down the road against all orders, allowing and leaping.
~ Annie Dillard
It was not a pretty sight, all these pale, gangly, pimpled youths, in a frenzy of hunger and sexual frustration, shredding bread.
~ Anthony Bourdain
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.
~ Aristotle
When you reach the end and press ENTER, the top line rolls out of sight, and a blank line appears on the bottom of the screen for new text. This is called scrolling.
~ Arnold Robbins
The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But love at first sight is never boring.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
So. Are you going to see him again? Technically, I haven't seen him at all . . . (Heroine is blind - LOL)
~ Shiloh Walker
I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes–-the left–-saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.
~ Shirley Jackson
What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
~ Shirley Jackson
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
~ Shirley Jackson
it was a joyful sight, to see the first twistings and turnings of the demon caught
~ Shirley Jackson
The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.
~ Shiro Amano
And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.
~ Sibella Giorello
But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They're never around when you need them.
~ Sidney Sheldon
But I've had a lot of time to think about this, and if you ask me, most people underestimate eyes. For a start they're powerful. They have range. You focus on someone thirty metres away, through a whole bunch of people, and they know you're looking at them. What other bit of human anatomy can do that?
~ Sophie Kinsella
A sight to touch e'en hatred's self with pity.
~ Sophocles
What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.
~ Sophocles