Unfocused Vision Quotes & Sayings

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive
all would have perished by want of subsistence. — Abraham Lincoln

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. — Ben Kingsley

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. — Bergen Evans

I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another ... — Joseph Plaskett

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. — Helen Slater

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls. — Benjamin Whichcote

He says my name like it's a prayer, and I feel like a goddess. — Nicole Christie

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike

Wonderful. Last night's dinner, the charred remains of my dignity, and apparently, now, my undergarments, too. What else did I leave on Josh Bennett's bathroom floor? — Katja Millay

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently. — Ray Bradbury

Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self. — Russell Banks

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be. — Donna Summer

I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy. — Hannah Tointon

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day. — Pope Francis

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydreaming are stimulated by dim light and shadow. In order to think clearly, the sharpness of vision, has to be suppressed, for thoughts travel with an absent-minded and unfocused gaze. Homogeneous bright light paralyses the imagination in the same way that homogenization of space weakens the experience of being, and wipes away the sense of place. The human eye is most perfectly turned for twilight rather than bright daylight. — Juhani Pallasmaa

She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people. — Alan Bennett