Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Bourke-White

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Paul Gauguin

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

J. K. Rowling

I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere in the U-bend.

Julia Ward Howe

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Kim Gordon

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Kim Harrison

Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

Keanu Reeves

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory)

John Milton

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

Miguel de Cervantes

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

John Muir

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

John Robert Seeley

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

John Stott

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

Nora Roberts

The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

Nikola Tesla

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

Nikola Tesla

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

Nat King Cole

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Matthew Arnold

And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

Plato

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

Maria Sharapova

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

Maureen Johnson

I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Michel Foucault

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

Margaret Mead

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

Michelangelo

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

Michelangelo

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

Neal Stephenson

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

Neale Donald Walsch

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

Marcel Proust

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....

James Russell Lowell

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Laurence Sterne

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

Laurence Sterne

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Henry Hazlitt

One of the worst features of all the plans for sharing wealth and equalizing or guaranteeing incomes is that they lose sight of the conditions and institution s that are necessary to create wealth and income in the first place.