Seen Quotes

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.