I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
~By Will McDonough ~
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
~By Terry Brooks ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
~By Herman Melville ~
There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
~By Donald Cargill ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
~By Johan Cruijff ~
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
~By Howard Carter ~
We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
~By John Barton ~
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
~By Ken Follett ~
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
~By Corin Nemec ~
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
~By John Dryden ~
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
~By Orson Pratt ~
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.
~By John Mica ~
Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
~By Michael McKean ~
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
~By Sitting Bull ~
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
~By Aeschylus ~
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
~By Walter Lang ~
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
~By Edmond Halley ~
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.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
~By Walter Martin ~
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~By Anthony Powell ~
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
~By George Savile ~
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
~By Charles Stanley ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
~By Greg Ginn ~
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
~By David Strathairn ~
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
~By Michael Lewis ~
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~By Andre Gide ~
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
~By Ovid ~
These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
~By John E. Walker ~
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
~By Arthur Golden ~
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
~By Otto Dix ~
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.
~By James Galway ~
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
~By William Tyndale ~
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
~By Mark Strand ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Fear is the mother of foresight.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
~By Christine Lavin ~
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
~By Davy Jones ~
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
~By James T. Walsh ~
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
~By Jean Toomer ~
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
~By Sam Francis ~
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
~By Mike Tyson ~
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
~By Charles de Lint ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
~By Francis Wright ~
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
~By Michael Schenker ~
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
~By Paul Brunton ~
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
~By Henry Flynt ~
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
~By Herodotus ~
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~By Paul Begala ~
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
For we walk in faith, not by sight.
~By Jesus Christ ~
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
~By John Joly ~
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
~By Lee Remick ~
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
~By Augustine Birrell ~
Insight is the first condition of Art.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
~By Helen Rowland ~
It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
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