Seeing It For The First Time Quotes

#1. Viewing the world from a different angle made it all look strange and dynamic, as if seeing it for the first time.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#2. Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

Joseph Cornell

#3. There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Pauline Kael

#5. When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue.

Kirsty Eagar

#6. Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Dennis Muren

#7. I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Diego Della Valle

#8. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Guy Finley

#9. But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of fiction, and there was a kind of dreadful exhiliration in seeing things that had troubled me for years come out in a new form, a form over which I had imposed control.

Stephen King

#10. The figures ... are not supposed to reveal anything ... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

Wayne Thiebaud

#11. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small.

Cambria Hebert

#13. It's like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.

Blake Crouch

#14. An odd arrangement ... to have a couch facing the bed, and I smile to myself - I've picked on the couch as odd, when really it's the most mundane piece of furniture in the room. - Anastasia seeing the playroom for the first time.

E.L. James

#15. Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Douglas Coupland

#16. Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing them for the first time. It helps us to remember the wonders that we take for granted.

Cesar Millan

#17. Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

Irvine Welsh

#18. Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

Cesare Pavese

#19. As Hardy Cates stood there looking at me, really seeing me for the first time, it felt like the whole world had been snatched up in a great unseen hand, its motion arrested.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. Then you came along," he muttered, touching my wet cheeks, "and suddenly ... I don't know. It was like I was seeing things for the first time again. When I saw you with Puck, the day you came to the Nevernever ... "
-Ash

Julie Kagawa

#21. When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time ... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

Colm Toibin

#22. The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.

Nastia Liukin

#23. One of the quiet agonies of life, is seeing people who love something, lose touch with what made them happy. It can happen to anybody.

No matter what you do for a living, where you live, or who you're with, it's important to remember why you wanted to do something for the first time.

Jason Gay

#24. For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

#25. Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Betty Smith

#26. It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.

Elmore Leonard

#27. You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

Bernadette Peters

#28. I stared at him and, for the first time, I felt like I was really seeing him. He didn't love me. He used the word love like a weapon, as a means of control, as a way to ensure my blind obedience. He made it ugly. He

Penny Reid

#29. I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.

Evan Daugherty

#30. It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#31. It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Annie Dillard