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Quotes About Sight

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
To know is to remember that you've seen.To see is to know without remembering. Thus painting is remembering the blackness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
El significado de los colores es que están ante nosotros y podemos verlos - le contestó el otro -. No se puede explicar el rojo a quien no lo ha visto.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it.
~ Constantine P. Cavafy
In a world darksome as this'n I believe a blind man ort to be better sighted than most.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Como el primer síntoma de un galucoma frío enpañando al mundo.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I dont suppose you have any glasses. They're in the kitchen. Western started to get up. I dont think you want to go back there. He sat back down again. It aint a pretty sight. Sink's so full of dishes you got to go outside to take a leak.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.
~ Craig Johnson
Put the lights out, we shall see better.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It's an interesting age you will live in — though I can't say I'm sorry to miss it. But it should be quite a sight, the going under of the evening land. That's us all right. And I can tell you, my young friend, it is evening. It is very late.
~ Walker Percy
The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
One of the most pernicious of folk-sayings is, 'I cannot believe my eyes!' Why particularly should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Believe your mind, your intuition, your reason, your emotion if you like - but not your eyes unaided by any of these interpreters. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination, as easily as the actual scenery.
~ Ward Moore
To Know the Dark 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
Don't sit there watching TV without your glasses! Do you want to ruin your eyes?!" "My opthalmologist says that not wearing glasses cannot hurt the eyes even if those glasses are badly needed for adequate vision." "What does your opthalmologist think of the foreign situation?
~ Charles M. Schulz
Filosóficamente no puede confiarse en los ojos.
~ Charles Simic
Houve um tempo em que, se tivesse de optar entre duas cegueiras, escolheria ser cego ao esplendor do mar, às montanhas, ao pôr-do-sol do Rio de Janeiro, para ter olhos de ler o que há de belo, em letras negras sobre fundo branco.
~ Chico Buarque
Safety glasses: making foresight 20/20.
~ Author Unknown
The eye has knowledge the mind cannot share
~ Hayden Carruth
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived. At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or at least, almost so. What say you, Marianne?
~ Jane Austen
Catherine- How I hate the sight of an umbrella! Mrs. Allen- They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.
~ Jane Austen
I well know the sight of beauty is a real gratification.
~ Jane Austen
So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.
~ Jane Smiley