Explore Quotes on Sight

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

My father started me singing in church.

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

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.