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Quotes About View

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
~ Deborah Tannen
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
~ George Henry Lewes
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
~ Lord Byron
You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
~ Shannon Lucid
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
~ Ned Rorem
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
~ Tom Petty
Colour is a matter of personal opinion.
~ Unknown
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
questions. "What did you see
~ Danielle Steel
tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners
~ David Baldacci
He put in his search and refined it as he went along, adding as much information as he could remember. Finally, an address came back. He used street view to see the place.
~ David Baldacci
time he only saw windows.
~ David Baldacci
My own view, repeated in virtually all of my essays, is that the sense of skepticism engendered by the sciences would be far more appropriately directed toward the sciences than toward anything else.
~ David Berlinski
The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.
~ David Foster Wallace
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.
~ William Shakespeare
Return of love, more blest may be the view; As call it winter, which being full of care, Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare. Sonet56
~ William Shakespeare
I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.
~ Winston Churchill
When I stepped back, I must say it was very amusing to view all of these people running helter-skelter to help a nutsy woman carry out a vengeful plan. So fascinating and, as I say, not a bad idea for satire.
~ Woody Allen
Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.
~ Yann Martel
You bring joy and pain in equal measure- come aboard if your destination is oblivion. It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.
~ Yann Martel
Había dos maneras de mirarla: imaginando que estaba lejos y era grande, o creyendo que era pequeña y estaba cerca.
~ Clarice Lispector
The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
~ Unknown
sat transfixed by the rhythm of that voice – the strong view lightly stated. It wasn't words plus pictures.
~ Clive James
AD Jones' Büro ist fensterlos und nüchtern. Er hat sich ein Eckbüro mit großartiger Aussicht nehmen können, doch als ich ihn einmal deswegen gefragt habe, lautete seine Antwort sinngemäß: "Ein guter Chef sollte nicht allzu viel Zeit im Büro verbringen." p. 26
~ Cody McFadyen