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Top 118 Sight Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“I’m like a sight gag.”

― Adam Driver

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”

― Albert Schweitzer

“I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.”

― Alex Guarnaschelli

“The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.”

― Alexander McCall Smith

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

― Alexander Pope

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

― Alexander Pope

“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”

― Annie Besant

“I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.”

― Anthony Warlow

“Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.”

― Ariel Garten

“I don’t have to do films to pay my bills, nor am I insecure to think that out of sight is out of mind.”

― Asin

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

― Augustine Birrell

“I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.”

― Beth Broderick

“The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.”

― Brian Bosworth

“People lose sight that the counties run the elections.”

― Brian Kemp

“I don’t like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it’s going to be out of sight.”

― Britt Daniel

“Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.”

― Catherine Zeta-Jones

“The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.”

― Charles de Lint

“One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.”

― Christopher Markus

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

― Christopher Marlowe

“My knowledge of trains – and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight – comes from Alfred Hitchcock.”

― Darin Strauss

“Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.”

― Deborah Moggach

“The best part is that I’m still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.”

― Diane Keaton

“My legs are ice skaters’ legs. No tan in sight.”

― Dorothy Hamill

“This sight… is by far the noblest astronomy affords.”

― Edmond Halley

“Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.”

― Edna Ferber

“Though personally I’m not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.”

― Ekta Kapoor

“Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.”

― Ellen G. White

“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”

― George Savile

“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”

― Gerard Way

“When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.”

― Gordon Brown

“Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I’m just cynical.”

― Greg Davies

“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.”

― Hal Borland

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

― Helen Keller

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

― Helen Keller

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”

― Helen Keller

“The eyeball is contained in the cavity of the orbit. In this situation, it is securely protected from injury, whilst its position is such as to ensure the most extensive range of sight.”

― Henry Gray

“The weird thing about having an alligator on set is that you can’t be in the direct line of sight, or they might start charging at you.”

― Hiro Murai

“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.”

― Horatio Nelson

“It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.”

― Howard Carter

“The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.”

― Isabella Bird

“The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one’s over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.”

― J. B. Pritzker

“Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.”

― Jayson Blair

“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.”

― Jean Anouilh

“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.”

― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“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.”

― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.”

― Jean Nouvel

“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”

― Jean Toomer

“If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn’t keep that kind of ruse up forever.”

― Jennifer Armintrout

“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.”

― Jeremy Rifkin

“I’m a singer, and I never lost sight of that.”

― Jimmy Scott

“I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.”

― Johann Lamont

“A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.”

― John Bates Clark

“The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn’t stand the sight of the audience.”

― John Cale

“We’ve lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.”

― John Hewson

“I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they’re no good. I don’t throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”

― Johnny Cash

“The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.”

― Joseph Addison

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

― Karl Marx

“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”

― Katharine Hepburn

“Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!”

― Lee Remick

“I’ve been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven’t lost sight of that girl I was.”

― Lori Lightfoot

“I haven’t let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.”

― Magdalena Neuner

“In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.”

― Mao Zedong

“Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.”

― Marilyn vos Savant

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”

― Mark Twain

“But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.”

― Martin O’Malley

“From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.”

― Mary C. Jones

“I remember one of my favorite all-time records was by Edwin Starr: ‘Stop Her on Sight.’”

― Michael McDonald

“I think we’ve seen every type of drag come across the stage of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ and there is no end in sight of what can be on the stage.”

― Michelle Visage

“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.”

― Mike Tyson

“The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.”

― Moses Mendelssohn

“I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.”

― Mousa Dembele

“It all depends on the athlete. It all depends on if the bigger guys come out, and they become a Shaquille O’Neal, or if they become a Porzingis…You don’t ever lose sight of those type of players, even though the game has changed.”

― Muggsy Bogues

“Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.”

― Naomi Wolf

“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”

― Natalie Clifford Barney

“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

― Nelson A. Miles

“I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.”

― Nyle DiMarco

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

― Otto von Bismarck

“At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.”

― Paul Scholes

“The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.”

― Plautus

“Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?”

― Rand Paul

“When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.”

― Rene Girard

“We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.”

― Richard Perle

“Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.”

― Richard Strauss

“A lot of celebrities are afraid of being out of sight, out of mind. I’m the complete opposite.”

― Rob Van Dam

“Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.”

― Robert Green Ingersoll

“Sometimes it’s said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.”

― Robert Jay Lifton

“What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.”

― Rudolf Steiner

“What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can’t be used to make life only bearable.”

― Sam Francis

“At 22 years old, I tattooed ‘family’ on my wrist to not lose sight of my true goal.”

― Scooter Braun

“Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.”

― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”

― Sitting Bull

“Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn’t in sight until it becomes unbearable.”

― Sophie B. Hawkins

“I like eating everything in sight.”

― Stacey Dooley

“Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.”

― Stan Laurel

“Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I’m guessing you’re not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998’s ‘Out of Sight.’”

― Steve Erickson

“These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.”

― Steve Finley

“The reverberation of the freedom of making ‘Schizopolis’ absolutely resulted in ‘Out of Sight’ and everything that followed.”

― Steven Soderbergh

“I live by faith and not sight.”

― Storm Reid

“I took my sight and mobility for granted.”

― Sue Townsend

“If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.”

― T. C. Boyle

“A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.”

― Terry Glavin

“Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.”

― Thomas a Kempis

“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.”

― Thomas Gray

“Ultimately, I just made the decision to move to L.A. sight unseen. It took me a while to save up some money to do it.”

― Timothy Simons

“The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.”

― Tom Waits

“Growth is always there in the MPC’s scheme of things; we don’t lose sight of that, but not at the cost of inflation.”

― Urjit Patel

“Sometimes you lose sight of what’s going on around you.”

― Usain Bolt

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”

― Victor Hugo

“Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.”

― Viktor Orban

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”

― Virginia Woolf

“The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.”

― W. Somerset Maugham

“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

― Walt Disney

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

― William Feather

“The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.”

― William Godwin

“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!”

― William Shakespeare

“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.”

― William Tyndale

“My skin’s not a normal sight.”

― Winnie Harlow

“Like many other tourists, I’m afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.”

― Yvette Mimieux

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