Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

e. e. cummings

my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Dorothy Day

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Andrew Bird

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Robert A. Heinlein

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

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.

Miley Cyrus

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.

Matt Hammitt

I think we all knew it was the kind of song that had a message people could relate to. Everybody, at any given point in their life, is going through something. That's life. Always a new challenge. As soon as we think we've got the one thing down, a roof caves in. You just never know what's going to happen.

David Letterman

They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Robert McNamara

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Simone de Beauvoir

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Timothy Radcliffe

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Steffi Graf

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.