There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Susan Sontag

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
Payne Stewart

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Marshall McLuhan

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
Chief Joseph

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
Eddie Izzard

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
Thomas Friedman

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.
Mike Krzyzewski

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Dean Koontz

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Hank Aaron

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Babe Ruth

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