Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening to Duran Duran. Stars? Who remembers stars? Come to think of it, had I even looked up at the sky recently? Had the stars been wiped out of the sky three months ago, I wouldn’t have known.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.