I Can See Quotes

#1. YOU WILL DRINK THE COFFEE UNTIL I CAN SEE MY FACE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP!" I did not mean to roar. "But it's a clay cup." "I DO NOT CARE!" He finished the coffee. "You did not have to finish it," I said, because I could perceive that he was rebuilding the Great Wall of China with shit bricks.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

Roger Ebert

#3. And he's just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary)
She's feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.

Franz Kafka

#5. He, Ron, and Hermione passed through the gateway together. "There he is, Mom, there he is, look!"
It was Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister, but she wasn't pointing at Ron.
"Harry Potter!" she squealed. "Look, Mom! I can see -

J.K. Rowling

#6. Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know.
Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#8. Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

Preet Bharara

#9. We were an us, Charlie. And holy shit, I can see why.

Tarryn Fisher

#10. Oh, all right! But this doesn't mean we're bonding!" "Fine. Fine." "I'm not a bondage kind of person," Angua added. "Yes, yes," said Sally. "I can see that.

Terry Pratchett

#11. When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

Pearl Cleage

#12. I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History

Sebastian Barry

#14. They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth.

Shannon McDermott

#15. I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.

Wes Craven

#16. And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

Patrick Ness

#17. I don't think I've ever loved anyone quite like this. In this sort of giddy, obliterating game-changing way. Where I can see myself with her for the rest of my life ...

Christina Lauren

#18. I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond the effort to appear unperturbed in the face of the inexplicable, which is as far as I can see one of the central tasks of adulthood.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#19. Now I can see myself married, and I can see myself having my own family. With you. And that's the best gift I could ever have.

J. Lynn

#20. When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.

Shauna Niequist

#21. So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
"Always," I say to him. "Every time.

Patrick Ness

#22. I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.

Charles Yu

#23. And?" he murmurs.

"And . . . sapphire." My voice fades into a whisper.

"For the angel of Joy."

"Joy?" Magiano smiles, gently this time.

"Yes." I look down, overwhelmed by sudden sadness.
"Because I can see so much of it in you.

Marie Lu

#24. I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.

George Harrison

#25. Because I can see them, I bridge life and death, and they hope I can open for them the door they are afraid to open for themselves.

Dean Koontz

#26. I can see every monster as they come in.

Truman Capote

#27. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..

Colleen Hoover

#28. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.

Jay Kristoff

#29. I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

David Rakoff

#30. I am glad," he said. "They will be able to take care of each other when I am gone, or at least I can hope for it. He says she does not love him, but - surely she will come to love him in time. Will is easy to love, and he has given her his whole heart. I can see it. I hope she will not break it.

Cassandra Clare

#31. I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

Richard Gere

#32. I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.

T.H. White

#33. Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Margaret Atwood

#34. But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathering, grandfathering." "But,

Irvin D. Yalom

#35. My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Roxane Gay

#36. In my life are many windows
and many graves.
Sometimes they exchange
roles:
then a window is closed forever,
then by way of a gravestone
I can see
very far.
(Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)

Yehuda Amichai

#37. These books ... , she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as they take away my books. I can see the straight line to her grave, to mine.

Deborah Meyler

#38. Because of you, I can see and realize the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#39. As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Will Self

#40. A man attacked me, choked me, bit my neck, burned my hand, then stuffed my shirt full of money and put a dumpster on me and now I can see heat and hear fog. I've won Satan's lottery.

Christopher Moore

#41. I can see that the tennis for the fans could be a bit boring, and these days you have these new modern things which you can do, and you have a lot of time, because you just play a match, and practise, and many times in between you can bring many things to the fans.

Tomas Berdych

#42. At night, when no one's there, the dancers and the musicians on the walls come to life and there's a glamorous ball. Sometimes their lights are so bright I can see the glow from my bedroom.

Chris Bohjalian

#43. The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

Neshka Robeva

#44. So beautiful... I can see hell.

Kohta Hirano

#45. ... No matter what happens to me, watch over her."

"You needn't ask. You ken I will--wi' my life."

"My love lies upon her."

Iain grinned. "And her's upon you. I can see it. Now go to her."

-Iain and Morgan

Pamela Clare

#46. Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

Philip K. Dick

#47. It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

Emily Procter

#48. Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.

James Joyce

#49. That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Jamie Bell

#50. I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

Roger Zelazny

#51. As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

Adam Rich

#52. We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

Diego Giacometti

#53. Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.

Jamie Wyeth

#54. Ah I can see that....
You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see

Kenneth Patchen

#55. If I can see it, it's a failure

Bill Buxton

#56. What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say.
Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.'
She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.

Victoria Hanley

#57. Big shots are only little shots that keep shooting. I can see your sun rise out of obscurity. Keep shooting

Ikechukwu Joseph

#58. Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

Yishan Wong

#59. When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Vinessa Shaw

#60. I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.

Elfriede Jelinek

#61. Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

Glenda Millard

#62. I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

H.W. Brands

#63. Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?"
"Oh, I can see you, all right ... I can see you riding out on your beautiful palomino checking the herd ... There you sit, silhouetted against the evening sky ... Sucking your thumb and holding that stupid blanket!

Charles M. Schulz

#64. I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

Douglas Adams

#65. I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

Kevin Dillon

#66. I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

Caroline Kennedy

#67. Helped Grandma off and removed her helmet. She stepped away from the bike and straightened her clothes. "I can see why people like these Harleys," she said. "They really wake you up down there, don't they?

Janet Evanovich

#68. Yeah, I can see how much you enjoyed it. Why did you go if it wasn't your thing?"
"I was dating him. It's polite to do things that the other person likes, to be supportive.

Noelle Adams

#69. I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Bo Burnham

#70. He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.

Scott Westerfeld

#71. I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

Gene Wolfe

#72. I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Evan Davis

#73. He shifts so that I can see him better, then draws an "x" over his heart. I raise a brow, and he lifts two fingers in a Boy Scout salute. I hold back a laugh, and he holds up his pinkie finger. "Shall we pinkie swear ?

J. Kenner

#74. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell

J.R.R. Tolkien

#75. Coitus Interruptus!" I screamed. "Stop and put your hands where I can see them.

Christine Zolendz

#76. I know you're not here, I can see it in your eyes when we talk. Where ever you are, come back soon

Iain Thomas

#77. He answered, "Whether or not He's a sinner, I don't know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!" John 9:25

Beth Moore

#78. I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

J.K. Rowling

#79. Tell me you want me, too..Tell me you lie in bed at night and when you close your eyes, you see me. Because all I can see is you.

A.L. Jackson

#80. Calmly spinning, I scan as far away as I can see. The last rays of the day's sun warm my back and my stare locks onto my own shadow. I follow the lines of my body on the stone in front of me, spreading my arms as wings, and bathe in the beauty of existence.

Dean Potter

#81. I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

Jeaniene Frost

#82. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

Suzanne Collins

#83. I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Diana Nyad

#84. From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too. I wonder how many more freckle's he's got. Are they all over, or just where the sun's touched?
Good Lord, why am I thinking of Finn Belastra without his clothes on?

Jessica Spotswood

#85. I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

Terry Pratchett

#86. I'm broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.

Elizabeth Scott

#87. I can see why you opted out of Knight training," I countered. "They'd have 'accidentally' killed you before you made it to adulthood.

Jenna Black

#88. And those who can see the departed usually see only a gray mist where you might be. Or they'll feel a rush of cold air when you walk past. But I can see you, touch you, hear you, pretty much anything you.

Darynda Jones

#89. The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#90. My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.

Suzy Kassem

#91. I hope Marcus (giggle) is there. Maybe he can defeat the evil Cullens with his mighty battle cry, I can see relationships!!!

Dan Bergstein

#92. In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

Ram Dass

#93. For the first time I can see this other longing
the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again.

Amie Kaufman

#94. Every once in a while it's as if my mind turns a corner, and then I can see forever. I love that feeling.

Lena Coakley

#95. I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Jennifer Doudna

#96. The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

Rod Taylor

#97. They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
It's true.
Except all I can see is Cole.
Because he was my life.

Jenn Cooksey

#98. I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

Dan Gilroy

#99. I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Edward Abbey

#100. I can see that you have made your decision, but I wonder if you will become tired and discouraged. Me - I will never give up.

Gabriel Dumont