Famous Quotes & Sayings

Layne Staley

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

Lisa Kleypas

One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

Lindsay Lohan

Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

Paul Dirac

I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.

Scott Adams

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Richard Whately

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Thomas Gray

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Thomas Hobbes

The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

Thomas Hobbes

As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.

Victoria Osteen

When you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

Victor Hugo

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Victor Hugo

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Victor Hugo

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

Victor Hugo

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Victor Hugo

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

Richard Bach

Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

Utada Hikaru

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Usain Bolt

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Sophocles

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

Sophocles

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

Stephen King

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Shahrukh Khan

Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

Sue Miller

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

Sue Townsend

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

Steven Tyler

In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

Richard Serra

Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how one walks through a piece and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.

T. D. Jakes

I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith

Thomas F. Wilson

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.