Philippa Gregory Quotes

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.

Look up and down and round about you.!

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.