Best Seeing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

Thinking Suffering Perfect Cities Talking Seeing Happened Honest Nostalgia Being Honest Beloved Flaws Baltimore

Author:Laura Lippman

“I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.”

Seeing Theater

Author:Logan Lerman

“I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.”

Behinds Seeing Scene Intention

Author:Jodie Foster

“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Facts Literature Seeing Absolutes Moved Baloney

Author:Norman MacCaig

“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.”

Ifs Government Care Responsibility Records Seeing Strange Embrace Folks Spending Libertarian Celebrate Activist Deficit Hawks Anti Government

Author:Rachel Maddow

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.”

Important Reason Age Seeing Disease Population Cancer Related Ageing

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.”

Thinking Knows Grows Seeing Best Things Wow Pregnant Belly Being Pregnant

Author:Tia Mowry

“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.”

Ifs Way Years Firsts Film Cutting Seeing Conversation Machines Finals If I Could Editing Edited Old Ways Avid

Author:Walter Murch

“People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.”

People Knows Feels Different Seeing Mets Who You Are Interviews

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

Thinking Persons Hard Reason Comedy Seeing Serious Drama Harder Silly Dramatic Crave Being Silly

Author:Evan Peters

“Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.”

People Made Choices Seeing Color Platforms Bright Colors Hope And Change

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself.”

Ifs I Can Ends Challenges Seeing Achieve The End Of The Day Bad Day

Author:Michael Jordan

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”

World Way Happens Father Class Struggle Seeing Rage Immigrants Tied Working Class Tied Up

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.”

People Seeing

Author:Andy Partridge

“I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.”

Stories Shows Remember Fun Dark Laughing Seeing Seasons Get Up Sucker Eric Trailers Make Me Laugh Gags Teasers

Author:Jared Padalecki

“I love playing to people and seeing them react.”

People Seeing

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.”

People Seeing

Author:Natalie Portman

“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”

World Writing Two Character Eye Together Seeing Honesty Sympathy Seeing The World

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”

Art Country Wanted Artist Fun Realizing Class Seeing Inspire Painting Art Class

Author:Edward Ruscha

“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.”

Way Stills Country States Lasts Sports United United States Saws Seeing One Thing Missing Changed Western My Way Last Time Great Sports Pristine Hitchhiking Open Road

Author:Edward Ruscha

“My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.”

Stills Different Light Memories Seeing Color Mom Ten Sticks My Mom Bunch My Sister Gloves Light Up Souvenirs Different Colors Melbourne Peace Sign

Author:Emilie de Ravin

“I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.”

Whole Able Wanted Girl Goal Seeing Mines Inspired Great Things Usa Competing Olympian

Author:Aly Raisman

“I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.”

Faces Seeing Television Tvs Sick

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

Thinking Ideas Different Character Actors Fun Seeing Directors Passionate Different Ideas

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.”

Way Years Firsts Long Results Seeing Research Years Ago Incredibles Scary Surgery Long Way Advancement Stigma Mastectomy

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.”

Doe Problem Political Imagination Levels Gone Imagine Seeing Racism Let Me Imagine That Arena

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I love seeing live music.”

Seeing Live Music

Author:Jessica Szohr

“I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.”

Thinking Years Hate Girl Seeing I Hate

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.”

Knows Way Doe Artist Causes Seeing Hot Surprise Hip Hop Spots Hips Hops Here And There Leaks Clip Quentin Tarantino Hip Hop Artist

Author:Jamie Foxx

“How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?”

Ifs Thinking Doe Energy Seeing Dependent Draining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“Wisdom is seeing that there are templates in the universe that you can follow. They will show you what to do and what not to do. In order to see them you have to make your mind very quiet, very still.”

Mind Stills Shows Wisdom Order Universe Seeing Buddhism Quiet

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.”

Eye Life Is Silence Vision Seeing Awareness Buddhism All Things Curtains Seeing The Truth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.”

Way Light Happiness Seeing Conditions Buddhism Shadow Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.”

Has Beens Feelings Laughing Seeing Victim Silent Bullying Bully Joining Disgusted Joining In Keeping Silent

Author:Octavia Butler

“I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Walks Watches Seeing Impression

Author:Michael Shannon

“I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.”

Children Littles Beautiful Seeing Office Mood Energetic Skeletons Good Mood Stockholm Ultrasounds

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.”

Ifs Writing Together Novel Seeing Believer Obsession Gathering Gathering Together

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.”

Hard Film Enjoy Audience Seeing Worthwhile

Author:Karl Urban

“I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.”

Made Records Saws Seeing Rocks Radio Stores Stations Jail Radio Stations

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.”

Way School Seeing Position My Way Pace Assistants Very Inspiring

Author:Alexander Wang

“Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.”

Years Reason Millions Seeing Huge Increase Rate Small Business Coverage

Author:Greg Walden

“People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.”

People Seeing

Author:Jim Woodring

“The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.”

Needs Humans Eye Human Beings Seeing Creatures Invisible Visible

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.”

May Eye Lord Seeing Tragedy Wake Up Invisible Visible Spit

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.”

Dream Vision Seeing Metaphor Invisible Visible Parables Ordinariness

Author:Luci Shaw

“In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.”

Thinking Facts Known Seeing Essentials Invisible Visible Living Things Gaudy

Author:Georges Rouault

“I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.”

World Mean Christian Spiritual Life Is Purpose Christ Seeing Relation Believer Invisible Redemption Meaning Of Life Visible Vague Orthodoxy Standpoint Disbelievers

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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