Sight Read Quotes

#1. I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Evan Peters

#2. I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was like a Mel Bay "Teach Yourself How To Sight Read ... "

Chris Thile

#3. I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

Elvis Costello

#4. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

#5. It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Kenneth Clark

#6. sight of the name on the screen. Anna. It grows when I read the text. This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here.

Kristen Callihan

#7. The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.

Craig Ferguson

#8. Man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.

Arthur Koestler

#9. I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

Vanessa Hudgens

#10. A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!"
"Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

Miss Read

#11. My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
I cannot write a verse, or read
Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
And let us have a lark instead.

Thomas Hood

#12. At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.

Allan Kardec

#14. Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Joyce Meyer

#15. I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.

Ann Goldstein

#16. Some day, I hope that you will find me hidden amidst my worlds, letters, poems and writings, discover me amidst my characters, uncover what i hid in plain sight. But I doubt you will. You have never known how to read between the lines.

Srividya Srinivasan

#17. I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

Art Spiegelman

#18. Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

#19. If it's the right person, it's easy.

Nina Ardianti

#20. Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Stephen Chbosky

#21. I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

Leos Carax

#22. He wrapped one arm around her waist, and cupped her nape with his other hand. This time when he kissed her there was none of the restraint she'd seen in the past. It was like kissing an inferno.
Hot, breathless, so overwhelming that her senses shattered.

Maya Banks

#23. I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

Adrienne Rich

#24. The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Samuel Johnson

#25. No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies

#26. She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman.

Charlie Lovett

#27. It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.

Edgar Magnin

#28. Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi