All Quotes

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
‐‐ Thomas Peterffy

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
‐‐ Joseph Hume

I see no reason for recording the obvious.
‐‐ Edward Weston

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
‐‐ Lara St. John

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
‐‐ Muriel Spark

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.
‐‐ Caroll Spinney

I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.
‐‐ Keith B. Alexander

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
‐‐ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I see no reason why the Shias should be debarred from having their voice in the elected bodies and governmental institutions in any matter which affect the Shias. We must so organise the Muslim League that justice is done to every sect and section inside it.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
‐‐ George Carey

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
‐‐ E. B. White

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
‐‐ Gordon Getty

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
‐‐ Omar Sharif

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.
‐‐ Louis R. Chenevert

I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

I see parody as another form of comedy.
‐‐ Bruce Campbell

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.
‐‐ Ryan Trecartin

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.
‐‐ Diane Setterfield

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
‐‐ Sun Ra

I see people detained for simple INS violations.
‐‐ Sibel Edmonds

I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It's so elementary, man.
‐‐ Pusha T

I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
‐‐ Lydia Davis

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
‐‐ Kaki King

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
‐‐ Jane Hirshfield

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
‐‐ Abbey Lee Kershaw

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.
‐‐ Luke Bracey

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'
‐‐ Tom Brady