Binoculars Quotes:

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Sublime, Telescopes, Binoculars

I got binoculars 'cause I don't want to go that close.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Humor, Want, Binoculars

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

topic: Powerful, People, Solitude, Binoculars

If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

topic: Kindness, Creativity, Focus, Binoculars

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

- Bob Dylan

source: Song: Visions Of Johanna, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

topic: Art, Media, Jewels, Binoculars

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

- Nell Zink

source: Source: www.ft.com

topic: Reality, Squares, Sky, Binoculars

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Underwear, Maps, Toothbrushes, Binoculars

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

- Mikhail Saakashvili

topic: Powerful, Alaska, Most Powerful, Binoculars

The heart sags. My footprints forget me. I don’t think anything will ever be the same. This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move, can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us. It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands. Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.

- Richard Jackson

topic: Hurt, Moving, Heart, Forget Me, Binoculars

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?

- Joo Won

topic: Girl, Interesting, Ordinary, Syndromes, Ordinary Girl

I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.

- Bill Bailey

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Bird, Bottles, Stuff, Showy, Loafers

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

- David Antin

topic: Lying, Men, Names, Smelly, Binoculars

The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

- Mikhail Bulgakov

source: Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

topic: Mother, Cat, Dust, Margarita, Bow Tie

North Korea is now threatening the United States with all-out war. You can see they're stepping it up. In fact, they released 10 more photos of Kim Jong Un looking through binoculars.

- Jay Leno

topic: War, Korea, Facts, Binoculars

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

- Roger Tory Peterson

topic: Bridges, Bird, Environmental, Bird Watching, Binoculars

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.97, Anchor

topic: Jobs, People, Vision, Standing Apart, Dell

Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Glasses, Looks, Amusement, Progeny, Binoculars

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

- Susan Beth Pfeffer

source: Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Eye, Moon, Night, Craters, Binoculars

Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

- Lori Wilde

topic: Eye, Marine, Hair, Jawline, Brown Eyes

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

- Tim Allen

source: "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

topic: Animal, Gun, Vegetables, Binoculars

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

- John Michael Hayes

topic: Men, Long, Focus, Rear Window, Binoculars

Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.

- Paul Auster

source: Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

topic: Father, War, Hero, Canteen, Binoculars