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“You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.”
Source: The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!
“You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.”
“You see? Silbermann assures us that this technique has added years to the sexual life of his patients. But, of course, one must be a born fighter to profit by it. In this respect we are rather backward in France; a certain lack of persistence and determination causes us to lose out in the race of pleasure. It’s different in the United States. There are people band together, organize group therapy sessions, make pornographic films, found institutes and clinics, all dedicated to combating the Decline of erection. America is the largest true phallocracy. By comparison, we French are a sorry lot of quitters.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.”
“You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world.”
“You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.”
“You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.”
“You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?”
“You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.”
“You see, society only cares about a
woman's filter if that woman is eligible to marry.”
Source: A Word so Fitly Spoken
“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”
“You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.”
“You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.”
“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.”
“You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.”
“You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.”
“You see someone and think, 'What a perfect life they have." But that's your perspective. From their perspective, their life is a mess and someone else's life is perfect. So everybody is running. What a goddamn circus!”
“You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.”
“You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.”
“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”
Source: Diane Arbus: revelations
“You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.”
“You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.”
“You see something in me worth fighting for when not many people ever have. You have no idea how beautiful that is to me.”
Source: Buried
“You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.
[...]
Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.”
“You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.”
Source: Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel
“You see something (someone) you like every day and yet you do not partake of it. That’s commitment. And most importantly, that's love.”
“You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement - the belief in something, the ideal that there is something worth fighting for.”
“You see something you like?" - Rose Hathaway”
Source: Vampire Academy
“You see something you like?”
Source: Vampire Academy
“You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school. "Lots," he said. -Rose (Roza) to Dimitri”
“You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.”
“You see, sometimes, a single child believing in magic - if they believe enough - is enough to restore order to the universe.”
Source: The Girl Who Saved Christmas
“You see, sometimes, dear reader, things can feel out of hand,
like you're spinning around in a wild, swirling band.
When you lose control, your worries start to grow,
imagining the worst about all the things you don't know.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole
“You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.”
“You see, somewhere deep within the universe is a cosmic heart that pours knowledge to those with questions. And to communicate with it, you simply have to tap into your own heart. Yet there is a catch. You cannot be sleeping. You have to be wide awake. And your heart cannot be heavy. It must be as light as a feather. And your questions cannot carry any shades of darkness; they must be as childlike as a curious and receptive student of Truth. And the answers, can be interpreted in many different ways -- depending on how much truth you have in you.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“You see, Squirt, there's heaven, and then there's hell. Hell is where they send all the bad people, like criminals and con artists and parking inspectors. And heaven is where they send all the good people, like you and me and that nice blonde from MasterChef.
What happens when you get there?
In heaven, you hang out with God and Jimi Hendrix, and you get to eat doughnuts whenever you want. In hell, you have to, uh . . . do the Macarena. Forever. To that "Grease Megamix."
Where do you go if you're good and bad?
What? I don't know. IKEA?”
Source: Lost & Found
“You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.”
“You see that a lot in movies, and today you see it more in movies that are made, because I feel more movies are made towards groups than towards individuals, and they're made more for mass media than for sitting in a movie house allowing it to happen.”
“You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.”
“You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired. Tired of all the drama, tired of not being good enough, tired of life. But she doesn't want to look dramatic, weak or attention seeking so she keeps it all inside. Act's like everything's perfect but she cries at night, boy does she cry at night, so that everybody thinks she is the happiest person they know, that she has no problems and her life is perfect. Little do they know.”
Source: Exactly 23 Days
“You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.”
“You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.”
“You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.”
Source: H is for Hawk
“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.”
“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh isn't as good a ruler as he is a conqueror.”
Source: Sons of Darkness
“You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.”
“You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.”
“You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.”