John Lyly Quotes

People never notice anything.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I try to watch everybody.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

When you are in the dark and you can't see anything, something is looking at you seeing everything

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.