Bifocal Quotes & Sayings

Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole. — Ivan Doig

She could almost see his smile. A sunrise. Breaking the darkness. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman

It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get your balance. That's why I held Billy's hand. — Glenda Millard

What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud.
1. Beeber Bifocal
2. Twenty Mile House
3. Bee
4. Your escape
Fourteen miracles to go. — Maria Semple

The city of Jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. It is a sight to wonder at: walled, four-gated, the whole of it a miracle worked by its citizens, who have learned the trick of transforming the fine white dune-sand of those forsaken parts, - the very stuff of inconstancy, - the quintessence of unsettlement, shifting, treachery, lack-of-form, - and have turned it, by alchemy, into the fabric of their newly invented permanence. — Salman Rushdie

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. — Sam Walter Foss

I'll push it down ... Down into the deepest part of my heart, so no one will see it. If I crush it, maybe it'll eventually go away. That's what I hope for every day. But what can I do? I don't really want to lose this feeling at all. — Keiko Kinoshita

This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion — William Shakespeare

Does Playboy still run fiction?"
"I have absolutely no idea, Melinda," he said, grinning. — Robyn Carr

I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out. — Steven Pinker

Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break. — Tyffani Clark Kemp

I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to. — Michelle N. Onuorah

But if I could choose how and when I wanted to die, I would want to be an eighty-year-old man shot by a jealous young husband who had caught me in bed with his teenage wife. — Nelson DeMille

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film." — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Opening day
or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it. — Jim Bouton