Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Federer

My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

Roger Zelazny

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

Roland Barthes

The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

Roland Barthes

Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

Roland Barthes

The necessary condition for an image is sight,

Sting

I don't like singing before noon.

Stewart Brand

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Peter Straub

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

Rachel Field

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Rachel Field

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Rabindranath Tagore

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

Seth Shostak

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.

Lewis Mumford

It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.

Larry Dossey

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

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.

Marco Rubio

We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are now a predominant group in Libya. They are beginning to pop up in Afghanistan. They are increasingly involved now in attacks in Yemen. They have Jordan in their sights.This group needs to be confronted with serious proposals.

Thomas a Kempis

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Thomas a Kempis

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Thomas a Kempis

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Simon Conway Morris

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

Sheila Johnson

Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.

Sheila Johnson

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.

Shane West

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

Natalie Merchant

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.