Top 38 Sighting Quotes
#1. But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
Paulo Coelho
#2. A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.
David Wong
#3. People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.
Bill Hicks
#4. It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
Dwight Schultz
#5. Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.
Adrianne Ambrose
#6. to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business.
Jules Verne
#7. Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. Think of the Christmas present
of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet
on a slippery wood floor and crashed
half way through a window. Hopes
of heroism dashed on the heels
of no clear sighting of Santa.
Kristen Henderson
#9. Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
John Lahr
#10. For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.
Carolyn Porco
#11. No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.
Karl Popper
#12. I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.
Adrian McKinty
#13. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Mark Twain
#14. I am wet shoes.
I am cold, damp breath.
I am sweating hands.
I am gravity crushing the grass beneath my boots.
I am Kevlar and metal and lead.
I am laser sighting.
I am death.
And I am coming.
Shane Kuhn
#15. *The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
Herman Melville
#16. On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
Brian Patten
#17. Living in L.A., you couldn't help picking up tidbits of the surf culture, almost through osmosis ... it was in the air, like vitamin D and the odd Brad Pitt sighting.
Ophelia London
#18. Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.
Judith Martin
#19. She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.
Stephen King
#20. I had a brief runaway fantasy where I ran away to California, which I'd never been to, to where all the Bigfoots were, and I'd disappear into the woods and live alone, become a rumor, an occasional blurred sighting. Father
Paul Tremblay
#21. We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.
Ivan Chtcheglov
#22. But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.
William Gibson
#23. Quote is taken from Chapter 1:
Since Etta could log in her rare Baltimore oriole sighting, she decided she'd had enough birding for one day. It was just a fun hobby, not an obsession.
Ed Lynskey
#24. Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.
Gordon Cooper
#25. Practically every woman in town makes a showing at Tucker's after a Jake sighting. I feel like I am watching the National Geographic Channel on mating rituals in the wild.
L.A. Fiore
#26. So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
Charisma Carpenter
#27. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
Graham Swift
#28. The audience's expectations are ever-present.
Ian McKellen
#29. Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;
Jane Austen
#30. They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this.
Terry Gou
#32. It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.
Jean Cocteau
#34. Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out.
Elizabeth Melville
#35. One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor Swift
#36. If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
Foster Friess
#37. Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
Paul Keating
#38. Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas
