Quotes and Sayings about Eye
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Eyes)
"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Soul, Eye, Smile)
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Ability, Chance, Eye, Feeling, Mind, Practice, Sense, Sight, Will)
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Eye, Meaning, Word)
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Battle, Day, Deals, Eyes, Rights, Human rights, Key, Open, Patience, Republican, Will)
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Blind, Eye, Oppression, Past, Right, Struggle)
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
- John Adams
(Related: Imagination, Charm, Eye, Wonder)
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Eye)
"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Eyes)
"I prefer to see with closed eyes."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Eyes)
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Eyes, Influence, Self, Spirit, Will)
"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way."
- Buzz Aldrin
(Related: Eyes, Trying, World)
"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Eye, Mind, Paradox, Reality)
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Law)
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Eyes, Heaven)
"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."
- William Albert Allard
(Related: Eyes, Personality)
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Funny, Successful, Eye, Information, Journalism, Needs, Service)
"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Eye, Spring)
"You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Eye, Fun)
"I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Time, Thought, Eyes, Today)
"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Work, Eye)
"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Eyes)
"He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again."
- Kingsley Amis
"The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post."
- Leonid Andreyev
(Related: Death, War, Loss, Post, Reason)
"When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one."
- Susan Anton
(Related: Women, Baby, Eyes, Will)
"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Soul, Eye, Understanding, Woman)
"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Soul, Eyes)
"I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Winning)
"Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Eyes, Open, Will)
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Soul, Day, Eyes, Reason)
"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
- Aristotle
(Related: Evil, Eye)
"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
- Roone Arledge
(Related: Eye, Public, Television)
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Earth, Eye, Pretty)
"Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes."
- Peter Arnett
(Related: Opportunity, Eyes, Media, Politicians, Present, Right, Style)
"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Eye, World)
"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."
- Eberhard Arnold
(Related: Children, Eyes, Wonder)
"Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Right)
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Wisdom, Love, Father, Son, God, Dignity, Eyes)
"It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime."
- Lee Atwater
(Related: Truth, Country, Eye, Illness)
"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
- Colleen Atwood
(Related: Eyes, Research, Today)
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Blindness, Eye)
"Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Life, Heart, Ugly, Will)
"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Eye, Repetition)
"I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: People, Idea, Eye, Hair, Living, Skin, Woman)
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Love, Men, Eyes, Feet, Help, Misery, Poor, Want)
"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Thought, Eyes)
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Eyes, Understanding)
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Nature)
"So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department."
- Dusty Baker
(Related: Time, Eyes, Open, Want)
"Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: God, Muslim, Eyes)
"In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Eyes, Justice)
"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Attention, Eyes, Help, Man, Nothing)
"There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character."
- Harvey Ball
(Related: Character, Eyes, Fun)
"I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally."
- Lucille Ball
(Related: Life, Failure, Divorce, Eyes, Hate)
"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
- Balthus
(Related: Eyes)
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Eye)
"There is less in this than meets the eye."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Eye)
"I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Eyes, Violence)
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
- Margaret Fairless Barber
(Related: Eye)
"His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!"
- Richard Harris Barham
(Related: Eyes, Grammar)
"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."
- Ellen Barkin
(Related: Mother, Son, Eyes)
"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Trust, Fish)
"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Age, Sex, Eye, Information, Security)
"I go to work the minute I open my eyes."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Work, Eyes, Open)
"But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media."
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Muslim, Eyes, Leaders, Media, Want, Weakness)
"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Age, Eyes, Giving, Trying)
"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Meeting, Words, World)
"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Beauty, Being, Eye, Feeling, May, Mind)
"Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Concern, Eyes, First, Future, Globalization, Open, Present, Will)
"The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Blind, Emotions, Eyes, Fans, Horror, Light, Worship)
"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Quotations, Windows)
"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Eyes)
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
(Related: Music, Heart, Eyes, Fire, Man, Tears, Woman)
"Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Blind, Enemies, Eye, President)
"The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Time, Eye, First, Light, Question)
"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Detail, Eye, World)
"In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Time, Eye)
"Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Eye, Light, World)
"But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Development, Vision, Comparisons, Eyes)
"The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers."
- Charlie Bell
(Related: Company, Dumb, Eye, Forget, Lies)
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Eye, Freedom, Vigilance)
"Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child."
- Pat Benatar
(Related: Love, Eyes, Pain)
"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Eyes, Man, Thinking, World)
"Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye."
- Jonathan Bennett
(Related: Time, Care, Eye)
"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."
- William Bennett
(Related: Morality, Children, Eyes)
"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Manager, Leader, Eye)
"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Eyes, Leaders)
"When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears."
- Jose Bergaman
(Related: Music, Eyes, Listening)
"In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Art, Attitude, Eye, Man)
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Truth, Eye, May)
"When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems."
- Jan Berry
(Related: Darkness, Eye, Light)
"Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: Eyes, Flattery, Imitation)
"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Decision, Care, Eyes, Open, Will)
"I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all."
- Justin Bieber
(Related: Money, Eye)
"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Eyes, Wrong)
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: War, Dying, Eyes, Will)
"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."
- Jack Black
(Related: Power)
"And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye."
- Lewis Black
(Related: Economics, Eye, Fault, Nothing)
"The eye altering, alters all."
- William Blake
(Related: Eye)
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
- William Blake
(Related: Imagination, Nature, Eyes, Joy, Man, Ridicule, Tears)
"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
- William Blake
(Related: Money, Eyes, Miser, Sun)
"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."
- William Blake
(Related: Eye, Man)
"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Blind, Eye, Racism, Violence)
"Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?"
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Life, Work, Actor, Eye, Will, Wind)
"Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about."
- Bill Blass
(Related: Change, Eye, Fashion, Style)
"I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Eyes)
"I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes."
- Corbin Bleu
(Related: Eyes, Girls, Smile)
"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."
- Felix Bloch
(Related: Eyes, Generations, Necessity, Pressure, Want, Will)
"Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms."
- H. G. Bohn
(Related: Courage, Eyes)
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Soul, Contempt, Eyes, Pity, Self, Sense, World)
"So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues."
- Jim Bolger
(Related: Eyes, Months, Public)
"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Battle, Eyes, Fire, Rank, Soldiers)
"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
- Bono
(Related: Disease, Extreme, Eye, Fact, First, Ocean, Poverty)
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Nature, Being, Eyes, Tears)
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
- Elizabeth Bowen
(Related: Eye, Mystery)
"I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night."
- Malcolm Boyd
(Related: Eye, Night)
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
- Ray Bradbury
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Wonder, World)
"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."
- Lakhdar Brahimi
(Related: Afghanistan, Eye, Games, Play, states, United)
"Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration."
- Johannes Brahms
(Related: God, Ideas, Eye, Mind, Right)
"The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery."
- David Brainerd
(Related: Wisdom, Father, God, Heart, Eye, Infinite, Pity, State)
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
- Constantin Brancusi
(Related: Body, Eyes, Fish, Reality, Spirit, Want, Water)
"I have eyes like those of a dead pig."
- Marlon Brando
(Related: Eyes)
"There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!"
- Eva Braun
(Related: Eyes, Nothing, Want)
"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
- Robert Bresson
(Related: Body, Eyes)
"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Public)
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Justice, Liberty, Protection)
"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Countries)
"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Community, Job, Office, Understanding)
"You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: People, Law, State, Trials, Will)
"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Office, Popular, Will)
"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Judges)
"Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Public, Question, Will)
"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Independence, Want)
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Committee, Senate)
"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Business, Money)
"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Politics)
"But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent."
- Stephen Breyer
"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Government)
"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Government, People, Order, Will)
"I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Thought, Control, Effort, Popular)
"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Facts, Independence, Law)
"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: People, Crime, Fight, Help, Prison)
"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: American, Law, Liberty)
"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Judges)
"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Whim)
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: People, Respect)
"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: People)
"Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that."
- Beau Bridges
(Related: Brother, Beginning, Eye)
"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Drugs, Eye, Hollywood, Sleep)
"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Tears, Weeping)
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Soul, Eye, Unconscious)
"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
- John Mason Brown
(Related: Eyes, Television)
"Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet."
- Pam Brown
(Related: Feet)
"If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater."
- Pam Brown
(Related: Sister, Eye)
"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Leadership, Blind, Congress, Energy, Eye, Republican, Trying)
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Heart, Eye)
"The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
- Robert Browning
(Related: Ecstasy, Eyes, Open)
"But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Purpose, Eyes, Nerves)
"The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation."
- Avery Brundage
(Related: Education, Life, Goal, Amusement, Eyes, Recreation, Vocation)
"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Eye, Heaven, Spring)
"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: April, Eye, Glory, Joy)
"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Eyes, Heaven)
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
- Martin Buber
(Related: Power, Eyes, Language)
"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses."
- Robert Williams Buchanan
(Related: Eyes, Lies, Roses, Satan)
"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Eye, Pain, Sky, Stars, Tears)
"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Blood, Eyes)
"Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over."
- Jeff Buckley
(Related: Eyes, Memories, Thinking)
"A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Death, Eyes, Man, Months, Order)
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Nature, Truth, Eye, Light, Ocean)
"The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Law, Limits, Public, Will)
"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Acting, Space, Writing)
"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Eyes, Hair)
"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Doubt, Eye)
"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military."
- Smedley Butler
(Related: Animation, Military)
"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Chicago, Cities, Contrast, Eyes, Future, Nation)
"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."
- James Caan
(Related: Eyes, Night)
"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"
- James Caan
(Related: Son, Thought, Baseball, Eye, Hollywood, Night)
"What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others."
- Eileen Caddy
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Right)
"Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Act, Lies, Lying, Smile, Word)
"I will know him by his eyes."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Eyes, Will)
"The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: Men, Women, Eyes, Hair)
"Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes."
- Ada Cambridge
(Related: Blind, Eyes, Justice, Law, Spirit)
"And muse on Nature with a poet's eye."
- Thomas Campbell
(Related: Nature, Eye)
"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"
- Elias Canetti
(Related: People, Decision, Disaster, Eyes, Misfortune, Open)
"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
- Max Cannon
(Related: Old)
"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Art, Courage, Eyes, Film, May, Profession)
"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Actor, College, Eye, Theatre, Training)
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Eyes)
"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
- Benjamin Cardozo
(Related: Duty, Risk)
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."
- Benjamin Cardozo
(Related: Eyes, Martyr)
"And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Day, Eyes, Now)
"We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important."
- Eric Carle
(Related: Time, Day, Eyes)
"I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power."
- Vanessa Carlton
(Related: Power, Success, Being, Eyes, Responsibility, Woman)
"The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said."
- Robert Carlyle
(Related: Being, Eyes, Will)
"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: God, Eyes, Open, Will)
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Eyes)
"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Eyes)
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Power, Eye)
"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."
- John Carmack
(Related: Work, Success, Goal, Eyes, Hard work, Key)
"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
- Emily Carr
(Related: Eye)
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Eyes, Man, Woman)
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Related: Heart, Eye, Fact, Meaning)
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Related: Eyes)
"The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Life, Eyes, Will, Wind)
"My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that."
- Shaun Cassidy
(Related: Idea, Right, Writing, Wrong)
"The nurses were all angels in my eyes."
- Randy Castillo
(Related: Angels, Eyes, Nurses)
"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Power, Church, Being, Eyes, Faces, Healing, Miracles, Perceptions, Rest)
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."
- Cato
(Related: Eyes, Man)
"Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies."
- Bruce Catton
(Related: American, End, Eyes, Sunset)
"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Time, Act, Eye, Nixon)
"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Time, Day, Drinks, Eyes, Teenage)
"I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?"
- Brian Celio
(Related: Day, Eyes)
"The eyes those silent tongues of love."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Love, Eyes)
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Fear, Eyes)
"There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Eye, Mind)
"Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve."
- Henry Chadwick
(Related: Strength, Body, Eye, Man, Mind, Possession)
"What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?"
- Sarah Chalke
"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best."
- David Chalmers
(Related: People, Hope, Eyes)
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
- Oswald Chambers
(Related: God, Difficulties, Eyes)
"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes."
- Whittaker Chambers
(Related: Father, Children, Eyes, Memory, Shadow, Will, Winter)
"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Horror, Man, Manners)
"In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Character, Being, Eyes)
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
- William Ellery Channing
(Related: Eyes, Perfection)
"She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away."
- Harry Chapin
(Related: Love, Eyes, Poets)
"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes."
- Prince Charles
(Related: Father, Dress, Eyes, Lady)
"The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Eyes, Nothing)
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
- Malcolm De Chazal
(Related: Eyes, Smile)
"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: God, Successful, Eye)
"When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'"
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: People, Eyes, Hair, Woman)
"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."
- Cher
(Related: Idea)
"Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us."
- Victor Cherbuliez
(Related: Life, Eyes, Joy, Nothing, Open, Worth)
"The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead."
- Mary Chesnut
(Related: Weight)
"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Heart, Eye, Intellect, Road)
"One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Eye)
"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Genius, Expression, Eye, Language)
"She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Kiss, Chess, Eyes, Smile)
"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
- Yvon Chouinard
(Related: Travel, Eyes, Fish, Now, Open, Self, Traveling)
"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Truth, Eye, Heaven, Man)
"The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Beauty, People, Country, Eye, World)
"Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Summer)
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Time, Idea, Eye)
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Intentions)
"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Body, Eyes)
"I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom."
- Sandra Cisneros
(Related: Power, Eye, Freedom)
"And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Experience, Eye, Reason, Spirit)
"There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice."
- Thomas Clarkson
(Related: Eye)
"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Happiness, Life, End, Eyes, Forget, Tears, Will)
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
- Lee Van Cleef
(Related: Being, Eyes)
"I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in."
- Roger Clemens
(Related: Eye, Fun, Games)
"Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Night, Wonder)
"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
- John Cleveland
(Related: Eyes, Pen, Rain, Water)
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
- William Cobbett
(Related: Heart, Eye)
"The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'"
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Management, Eye, May, Needs)
"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."
- Paulo Coelho
(Related: Lie, Eyes)
"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Eye, Open)
"Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant."
- Jim Cole
(Related: Love, Eye, Fun, Games)
"I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government."
- Gary Coleman
(Related: Government, Eyes)
"It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Achievement, Eyes, Giving, Importance, Teenagers)
"I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas."
- Monique Coleman
(Related: Kitchen)
"We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East."
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(Related: Eyes, Man, Open, Woman)
"Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled."
- Silvia Colloca
(Related: Men, America, American, Being, Eye, Famous, First, Girls, Talk)
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Men, Eyes, Order, Tongue)
"Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out."
- Robbie Coltrane
(Related: Thought, People, Eyes)
"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."
- William Congreve
(Related: Eye, Fool, Wit, World)
"I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next."
- Jimmy Connors
(Related: Eyes, Fire, Play)
"Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Love, Feelings, Open, Resignation)
"The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see."
- Matthew Continetti
(Related: Eye, Taxes, Waking)
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Eyes, Man, Mind)
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Eyes, Reflection)
"Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks."
- Julio Cortazar
(Related: Love, Eyes, Nostalgia)
"An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes."
- Hernando Cortes
(Related: Body, Water)
"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Eye, Open)
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Goal, Eyes, Obstacles)
"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: Love, Fear, Eyes, Question, Wonder)
"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Eye)
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Men, Earth, Eye, Moon)
"It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome."
- Deborah Cox
(Related: Dream, Being, Eyes, Voice)
"With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end."
- George Crabbe
(Related: Friend, Eye, Joy, Man, Poor)
"And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Life, Eyes)
"I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind."
- Broderick Crawford
(Related: Eye, Mind)
"I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one."
- Ben Crenshaw
(Related: Eyes)
"You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: People, Eye, Mistakes, Public)
"I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open."
- Kieran Culkin
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!"
- Billy Ray Cyrus
(Related: God, Eyes, Saying, Will)
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
- Salvador Dali
(Related: Dreams, Cause, Eyes, Man, Order, Television)
"It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like."
- Charles Dance
(Related: People, Attitude, Eyes, Open, Play, Question)
"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Wife, Day, Eye, Trying)
"Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children."
- Alphonse Daudet
(Related: People, Children, Eyes, Poets, World)
"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Eye)
"There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with."
- Alan Davies
(Related: Eye, Girls, Spiders)
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
- Robertson Davies
(Related: Eye, Mind)
"I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Men, Eyes, Yoga)
"There's no better mirror than a friend's eye."
- J. Wallace Day
(Related: Friend, Eye)
"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Eye)
"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Eye, Road, Want)
"I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Cards, Eyes, Games)
"When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Time, Eyes)
"As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter."
- Cat Deeley
(Related: Eyes, Feet, Smile)
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Eyes, Justice, Man, Party)
"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
- Frank Deford
(Related: Eyes, Light, Memory)
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
- Ellen DeGeneres
(Related: Eyes)
"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise."
- Thomas Dekker
(Related: Kiss, Eyes, Smiles)
"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Consciousness, Eye, Mind, Senses)
"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Poetry, Beauty, Fear, Eyes, Mind, Worth)
"In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with."
- Bruce Dern
(Related: Acting, Being, Eyes)
"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Crowds, Eye, Eyes, Smile)
"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Eye, Prejudice)
"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Eyes, Temper)
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Eyes, Man, Old)
"Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!"
- Casper Van Dien
(Related: Life, Money, Mother, Wife, Eyes, Favorite, Trees)
"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Desire, Film, Play)
"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."
- Phyllis Diller
(Related: Age, Beauty, Man, May, Will)
"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point."
- Wilhelm Dilthey
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Eye, Eyes)
"The child benefits more from being valued than evaluated."
- Don Dinkmeyer
(Related: Being, Benefits)
"In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded."
- John Dobbin
(Related: Bed, Eyes, Laziness, Open, Reality)
"But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it."
- Alfred Doblin
(Related: Eyes, Feet, Man, World)
"Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'"
- Shannen Doherty
(Related: Experience, Life, Thought, Eye, Public, Right, Want)
"I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye."
- Shannen Doherty
(Related: Life, Eye, Public)
"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
- John Donne
(Related: God, Soul, Eyes, Man)
"For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Soul, Heart, Career, Eye)
"Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren."
- Kyan Douglas
(Related: Eye, Help)
"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(Related: Eyes, Poor, Talk)
"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Friend, Eye)
"I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Eyes, Feeling, Feet)
"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly."
- Raoul Dufy
(Related: Eyes, Ugly)
"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."
- Raoul Dufy
(Related: Heart, Eyes)
"I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity."
- Keir Dullea
(Related: Life, Eternity, Eye, Living, Now)
"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: HusbEyes, Mind)
"If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Want)
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
- Will Durant
(Related: Soul, Knowledge, Desire, Eye)
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Integrity, Umpire)
"I often shoot with scissors in my eyes."
- Allan Dwan
(Related: Eyes)
"True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break."
- Edward Dyer
(Related: Eyes)
"The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools."
- Thomas Eakins
(Related: Nature, Artist, Eye, Tools)
"I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Eyes, Now, Trying)
"The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Nature, Eye, Study, Voice)
"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Eyes)
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Eye, Film)
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: God, Eye)
"The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb."
- Umberto Eco
(Related: Being, Dumb, Eye, Lies)
"Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes."
- Leon Edel
(Related: Eyes, Literary, Necessity)
"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that."
- Adrian Edmondson
(Related: Exercise, Eye)
"That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance."
- Barbara Ehrenreich
(Related: First)
"We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag."
- Adolf Eichmann
(Related: War, God, Laws)
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: People, Eyes)
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Eyes)
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Eyes, Wonder)
"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
- Loren Eiseley
(Related: Eye, Reflection)
"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
(Related: Dream, Eyes, Mind, Will)
"When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: First, Pretty)
"A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes."
- Paul Eluard
(Related: Eyes, Woman, World)
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Health, Eye)
"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Eye, Reason)
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Nature, Books, Eyes)
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Eyes, Sky)
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Blind, Man)
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Blind, Country, Man)
"I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Eyes, Man)
"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."
- Euripides
(Related: Danger, Eyes, Man)
"Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes."
- Linda Evans
(Related: Eyes, Right)
"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
- Walker Evans
(Related: Eyes)
"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
- Walker Evans
(Related: Feelings, Thoughts, Artist, Eye, Reason)
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Experience, Eye, Man)
"America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed."
- Louis Farrakhan
(Related: America, Will)
"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."
- Suzanne Farrell
(Related: Life, Eyes, Faces)
"The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes."
- Paul Feyerabend
(Related: Progress)
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Eyes)
"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Eyes, Sense)
"Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority ."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Financial, Authority, Congress, Eye)
"A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition."
- Howard Fineman
(Related: Being, Democrats, Dying, Eyes, Media, Opposition, Party, Talking)
"This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Eyes, World)
"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Work, Idea, Growth, Eyes, Gold, Man)
"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's."
- Roberta Flack
(Related: Opportunity, Eyes)
"Love's tongue is in his eyes."
- John Fletcher
(Related: Love, Eyes, Tongue)
"On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Eye, Musicians)
"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Blind, Eye, Labor)
"We took our eye off the ball as a company."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Company, Eye)
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Ideas, Enthusiasm, Energy, Eyes, Stars, Will)
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Goal, Eyes, Obstacles)
"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
- John Ford
(Related: Art, People, Eyes, Mystery)
"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: People, Eyes, Freedom)
"Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Purpose, Eyes, Tongue)
"Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Eyes, Value)
"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Body, Eye, Pain)
"We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Baseball, Eye, Play)
"When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married."
- Megan Fox
(Related: HusbPeople, Eyes, Old, Order, Talk)
"The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance."
- Genie Francis
(Related: Dance, Acting, Eyes, Present, Sharing)
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Work, Eye, Will)
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Faith, Eye, Reason)
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Blind, Clothes, Eye, Houses, Ruin, Want)
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Marriage, Eyes, Open)
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Laws)
"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
- Marilyn French
(Related: Men, Life, Women, Eyes, Laws, May, Public)
"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes."
- Marilyn French
(Related: Men, Eyes, Laws)
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Betrayal, Eyes, May)
"Keep your eye on the ball."
- Ford Frick
(Related: Eye)
"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."
- Nancy Friday
(Related: Mother, Eyes, Woman)
"I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody."
- William Friedkin
(Related: Life, People, Day, Eyes, Rest)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Beauty, Beer, Eye)
"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
- Caspar David Friedrich
(Related: Work, Darkness, Effect, Eye, First, Light, May, Spirit)
"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Actor, Eyes)
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Eye)
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: People, Control, American, Fire, May)
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
- James W. Fulbright
(Related: People, Control, American, Fire, May)
"Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters."
- Samuel Fuller
(Related: Action, Eye, Style)
"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wife, Eye)
"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."
- Thomas Fuller
"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Eye)
"One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Eyes, Theories)
"When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to."
- Lady Gaga
(Related: Soul, Day, Eyes, Fans, Injustice, Spirit, Want, World)
"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Love, Desire, Eyes, Lovers, Romantic, Want)
"My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: People)
"There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real."
- Peter Gallagher
(Related: Artists, Makeup)
"Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Work, American, Blind, Country, Eye, Healthcare, Law, states, United)
"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Eyes)
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Blind, Eye, World)
"My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force."
- Jennifer Garner
(Related: Sister, Body, Eyes, Force)
"For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex."
- William H. Gass
(Related: Sex, Country, Eye, Flies)
"I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college."
- Ana Gasteyer
(Related: College, Comedy)
"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have."
- Ana Gasteyer
(Related: Play, Sound)
"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."
- Ana Gasteyer
(Related: Body, Liberal)
"I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV."
- Ana Gasteyer
(Related: Play)
"Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible."
- Ana Gasteyer
(Related: Time)
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Eye, Ignorance)
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Eyes, Order)
"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."
- Theophile Gautier
(Related: Soul, Eyes)
"Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy."
- Martha Gellhorn
(Related: Children, Eyes, Misery, Voice)
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Eyes, Questions)
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Love, Beauty, Truth, Kings, Today, Yesterday)
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Being, Eye, World)
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
- William Gibson
(Related: Certainty, Eyes)
"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
- William Gibson
(Related: Eye, Language, Light, Mind)
"I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group."
- Sara Gilbert
(Related: Eye, Party)
"This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years."
- Vince Gill
(Related: Life, Time, Eye, First, Years)
"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Life, Country, Eyes, Hollywood, Months, World)
"I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now."
- David Ginola
(Related: Financial, EnglEye, Now, Right, State)
"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."
- Allen Ginsberg
(Related: Angels, Eyes, Poets)
"Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton."
- Lillian Gish
(Related: God, Eyes, Man)
"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."
- George Gissing
(Related: Heart, Emotions, Eyes, Mind, Will, World)
"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."
- Todd Gitlin
(Related: Genius, Ability, Attention, Desire, Machine)
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Happiness, Life, Home, God, Afghanistan, Eye, Rights, Winter)
"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years."
- Trisha Goddard
(Related: People, Beginnings, Eyes, Stars, Years)
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Eyes)
"Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Actor, Being, Celebrity, Eye, Public, Will)
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
- Rube Goldberg
(Related: Work, Eyes)
"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Eye)
"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Movies, People, Eyes, Fighting)
"When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones."
- John Goodman
(Related: Old)
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
- Nadine Gordimer
(Related: Eye, Mind)
"Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes."
- Mike Gordon
(Related: Eyes, First, Night, Nothing, Pain, Play, Song)
"For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side."
- Herman Gorter
(Related: War, Eyes)
"I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading."
- John Gould
(Related: Reading, Worth)
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
- Billy Graham
(Related: Life, God, Christian, Deep, Discouragement, Eyes, Moments, Prayer, Tears)
"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
- Amy Grant
(Related: Life, Marriage, Being, Eye, Public, Talking)
"I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye."
- Morris Graves
(Related: Eye, Rest, World)
"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes."
- Thomas Gray
(Related: Eyes, Faults, Man)
"I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about."
- Stephen Greenblatt
(Related: Love, Truth, Care, Entertainment, Needs)
"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."
- Jeff Greenfield
(Related: Eyes, Public, Republicans, Spirit, Voice)
"It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law."
- Pope Gregory VII
(Related: God, Church, Blind, Custom, Discretion, Eye, Help, Law, Spirit)
"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes."
- Joel Gretsch
(Related: Eyes)
"Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart."
- Jane Grey
(Related: God, Heart, Eyes, Mercy, Open, Spirit)
"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
- Edvard Grieg
(Related: Eyes)
"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
- Matt Groening
(Related: Life, People)
"What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do."
- John Guare
(Related: Heart, Body, Eyes, Possibilities)
"I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye."
- Edgar Guest
(Related: Eye, Want)
"There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
(Related: Dreams, Eye, Mind)
"Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Health, Control, Americans, Congress, Eyes, Identity, Information, Numbers, Security, Want)
"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Money, Eyes, Machines, Measure, Research)
"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."
- Gene Hackman
(Related: Eyes, Man, Old)
"Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it."
- Margaret Haddix
(Related: Draft, Eyes, First, Months)
"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
- Mark Haddon
(Related: Eye)
"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: Art, Abuse, Contrast, Eye, Film, Light, Today)
"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."
- Joseph Hall
(Related: Eyes, May, Reputation, Will, World)
"It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated."
- Geri Halliwell
(Related: People, Eye, Media, Public)
"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."
- Johann G. Hamann
(Related: God, Beginning, Being, Eyes, Living, Word)
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
- Dag Hammarskjold
(Related: Eye, Right, Road, Will)
"It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers."
- Jupiter Hammon
(Related: Men, Duty, Eye, Service)
"Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them."
- Henry Hampton
(Related: Civil rights, Community, Eyes, Moments)
"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."
- Learned Hand
(Related: Action, Effort, Eyes, Reflection, Sun)
"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
- William Christopher Handy
(Related: Money, Eyes, Longing, Name)
"The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes."
- Jack Hanna
(Related: Experience, Classroom, Eyes, Learning, World)
"For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat - which is a great deal more than he's had on it."
- Grace Hansen
(Related: Time, Eye)
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
- Thomas Hardy
(Related: Eye, Moods, Pain, Sound, Tongue)
"You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect."
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Food, Skin, Wine)
"Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings."
- Keith Haring
(Related: Power, Blood, Colors, Eye, Fact)
"But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here."
- John Marshall Harlan
(Related: Class, Constitution, Country, Eye, Law)
"It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel."
- Ben Harper
(Related: Love, Power, Heart, Blind, Eyes, Hate, Man, Nothing, Pride, Shame, Will)
"In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king."
- Ken Harrelson
(Related: Blind, Man)
"It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: Work, Clothes, Eye, Will)
"Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while."
- Corey Hart
(Related: Eyes, Night)
"Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry."
- Bret Harte
(Related: Time, Eye, Patience, Will)
"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist."
- Ronald Harwood
(Related: Artist, Detail, Eye)
"Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain."
- Childe Hassam
(Related: Nature, Art, Impression, Eye)
"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."
- Rutger Hauer
(Related: Eyes)
"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young."
- Goldie Hawn
(Related: Life, Time, Ability, Eyes, First, May, Will, Wonder)
"My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are."
- Goldie Hawn
(Related: People, Body, Eyes, Want)
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Doubt, Fool, Heroism, May, Self)
"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
- Tom Hayden
(Related: Decisions, Eyes, Politicians, Will)
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Beauty, People, Eye)
"I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do."
- J. Milton Hayes
(Related: Poetry, God, Eye)
"Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: People, Character, Day, Eye, Fool, Giving, World)
"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Beauty, Health, Eye, Fire, Spirits, Talk)
"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Nature, Eyes)
"Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: People, Eyes)
"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: American, Eyes, Public)
"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."
- Teresa Heinz
(Related: Eye, Job)
"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."
- Anna Held
(Related: Eyes)
"The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes."
- Mark Helprin
(Related: Eyes, Fight, Fighting)
"Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon."
- John Hench
(Related: People, Idea, Day, Eye)
"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Eyes, Forget, Play)
"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."
- Jimi Hendrix
(Related: Life, Love, Eye, Goodbye)
"Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen."
- William Alexander Henry
(Related: War, Eyes)
"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Beauty, Love, Heart, Eyes, Woman)
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Knowledge, Eyes, Kindness, Words)
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Eyes)
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
- Heraclitus
(Related: People, Eyes, Poor)
"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one."
- George Herbert
(Related: Eyes, Needs)
"The eyes have one language everywhere."
- George Herbert
(Related: Eyes, Language)
"Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids."
- Gilbert Hernandez
(Related: Mother, Father, Being, Eyes, Kids, Minority, Woman, World)
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
- Herodotus
(Related: Men, Trust, Eyes)
"The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes."
- Herodotus
(Related: Men, Belief, Eyes)
"Tears are the noble language of the eye."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Eye, Language, Tears)
"The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes."
- Seymour Hersh
(Related: Society, Idea, American, End, Eyes, Man, Woman)
"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."
- Arthur Herzog
(Related: Eyes)
"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see."
- James Hetfield
(Related: Eye, Fun, Games)
"Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes."
- Georgette Heyer
(Related: Letters, Old)
"She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it."
- Georgette Heyer
(Related: Heart, Unhappiness)
"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Experience)
"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Nature, People, Listening, University, Wind)
"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Nature, Enemies, Enemy, Friends, Nation, Ugly)
"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Being, Chance, Old, Thinking, Today, World, Years)
"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Time, People, Decision, Battle, Reality)
"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Civilization, Navigation, Result)
"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Happiness, Society, Technology, People, Jungle, Living, Man, Miracles)
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Progress, Ability, Man, Simplicity)
"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Peace, War, Conscience, Hate, Old)
"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Sacrifice, People, Idea, Strength, Willpower, Heroism, Years)
"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Time, Nature, Future, Meaning)
"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: War, Conflict, Heroism, Solution)
"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Time, May, Reality)
"For every minute, the future is becoming the past."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Future, Past)
"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: War, Act, Actions, Cause, Circumstances, Mind, World, World war)
"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: People, Civilization, Inspiration, Ideas, Beginning, Communication, Sea)
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Needs)
"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Airplanes, Land, Military, Nations, Security, World)
"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
- Bill Hicks
(Related: Eye, Television)
"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."
- Thomas W. Higginson
(Related: Eyes, Originality)
"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Ideas, Eyes, Light, Order)
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Eye, Mind, Will)
"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Winning, Eye, Mind, Nothing)
"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: People, Eyes, Sound)
"Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: Eye, Man, Will)
"City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead."
- Edward Hoagland
(Related: Life, Time, People, Country, Eye, Mind)
"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible."
- Russell Hoban
(Related: God, Idea, Blind, Eye, Eyes)
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow."
- David Hobson
(Related: Soul, Challenge, Eye, Joy, Nostalgia, Novelty, Patience, Plants)
"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Echo, Example, Eyes, Reflection, Words)
"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: People, Eyes, Reflection)
"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: Baby, Cute, Eye, Mind)
"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education."
- Paul Hoffman
(Related: Education, Time, Beginning, Eyes, Man, President)
"After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn."
- Albert Hofmann
(Related: Time, Colors, Day, Eyes, Play, Pleasure, Sleep)
"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Eye, President, Questions, Reform, Security)
"Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: Afghanistan, Eye, Iraq, Job, Today)
"The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there."
- Ian Holm
(Related: Eyes, Talk)
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Related: Eye, Light, Mind, Will)
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
- Homer
(Related: Wife, People, Enemies, Eye, Friends, Man, Nothing)
"The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches."
- Russel Honore
(Related: Eye)
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
- Horace
(Related: Soul, Cure, Eye)
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
- Horace
(Related: Impression, Eye)
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
- Horace
(Related: Eye, Literary, Public, Years)
"Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Eye, Smile)
"Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Thoughts, Deeds, Heaven, Words)
"Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Love, Eyes, Hatred, Hearing, Nothing)
"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world."
- Jane Howard
(Related: Science, Anthropology, World)
"If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush."
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Eye)
"I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you."
- Kate Hudson
(Related: People, Eyes, Musicians, Research, World)
"Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?"
- John Hughes
(Related: Kiss, People, Eyes, Kissing)
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
- Langston Hughes
(Related: Beauty, Happiness, Autumn, Dying, Gain)
"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Evil, World)
"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Eyes, Night, World)
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Eyes, Talking, Woman)
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Work, Act, Creation, Eyes, Heaven, Labor)
"My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out."
- Brett Hull
(Related: Eyes, Luck, Running, Wood)
"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: Today)
"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: Time, Day, Eyes, Fishing, Moments, Thinking, Waking)
"I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart."
- Kim Hunter
(Related: Heart, Emotions, Eye)
"I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die."
- William Hurt
(Related: Eyes, Want)
"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Accuracy, Eye, Training)
"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
- Mark E. Hyman
(Related: Advertising, Eye, Network, News, Television)
"You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know."
- Gwen Ifill
(Related: Democracy, Eyes, Now, Reason, Senate, Will)
"Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Eyes, Justice)
"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Strength, Blind, Eyes, Man, Providence)
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Love, Soul, Heart, Eyes, Liberty, Light, Man)
"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Power, Control, Corporations, Interest)
"When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery."
- Helen Hunt Jackson
(Related: Men, Mother, Baby, Eyes, Misery, Sound)
"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."
- Janet Jackson
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Darkness, Eyes)
"Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes."
- Joshua Jackson
(Related: Women, Eyes)
"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Eyes, Song)
"My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Music, Time, Eyes, Sky, Sun, Trees, Windows)
"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."
- Jam Master Jay
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from."
- Wyclef Jean
(Related: Life, Eyes, Spirituality)
"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Eye, Longing, Man)
"I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions."
- Jim Jeffords
(Related: Mistake, Eye, Intentions, Public)
"I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning."
- Stephan Jenkins
(Related: People, Beginning, Blind, Eye, Mind)
"If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Work, Eye, Eyes, Reading)
"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
- Peter Jennings
(Related: Negative, Eye)
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Mind, Secrets)
"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Family, Imagination, People, Children, Eyes, Importance)
"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: Heart, Eyes)
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Society, Women, Eyes, Facts)
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Eye, May, Perfection)
"I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Love)
"A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with."
- January Jones
(Related: Feelings, Eyes, Fun, Play)
"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: Time, Beer, Cities, Eyes, Road)
"I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time."
- Tom Jones
(Related: Time, People, Eye, Media, Pretty)
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Kiss, Eyes, Will, Wine)
"My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Father, People, Eyes, Rest)
"I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession."
- Nafisa Joseph
(Related: Thoughts, Eyes, Possession, Quotes)
"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Eye)
"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
- James Joyce
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Will)
"When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone."
- Ashley Judd
(Related: Character, Eye)
"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
- Juvenal
(Related: Women, Eyes, Tears)
"I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead."
- Al Kaline
(Related: Eye, Eyes, Punk, Right, Saying)
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
- Wassily Kandinsky
(Related: Soul, Artist, Eye)
"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right."
- Bob Kane
(Related: Eyes, First, Right)
"Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough."
- Gil Kane
"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
- Garson Kanin
(Related: Bed, Eye, Longevity, Man, Old, Years)
"The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately."
- Anish Kapoor
(Related: Eye, Quick)
"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."
- Yousuf Karsh
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Eyes, Man, Mind, Spirit)
"Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs."
- Hamid Karzai
(Related: Eyes, Ladies, Gentlemen, Now, Past, Terrorism)
"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."
- George S. Kaufman
(Related: God, Eye)
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
(Related: Darkness, Eyes, Meaning)
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
(Related: Change, Eyes, Reality)
"Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty."
- Denis Kearney
(Related: Men, Liberty, Past, Years)
"I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't."
- Willie Keeler
(Related: Eyes)
"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."
- Garrison Keillor
(Related: Eye, Reality)
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
- Garrison Keillor
(Related: Children, Eyes, Nothing)
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
- Garrison Keillor
(Related: Eye, Reality)
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Eye, World)
"Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!"
- John Harvey Kellogg
(Related: God, Eyes, Man)
"If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised."
- Rockwell Kent
(Related: Eyes, World)
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Eye, Stars)
"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."
- Deborah Kerr
(Related: Eyes)
"Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Eye, Fire)
"He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation."
- Francis Scott Key
(Related: Character, Christian, Country, Eyes, Name, Nation, Unworthy, Will, World)
"Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: God, Country, First, Responsibility)
"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Impression, Control, Children, Culture, Effect, Entertainment, Freedom, Media)
"We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Government, Variety)
"We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Government, Borrowing, Credit, Tax, Limits)
"The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Time, Battle, Slavery, Stars, Symbol)
"It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Family, Marriage, Time, Truth, Military, Radical)
"I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: God, Abortion, Care, Principles, Will)
"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Decision, Choice, Party, Will)
"Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Christ, Vote)
"Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Power, People, Bureaucracy, Clients)
"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Party)
"The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Government, Excise, Tax, Income, Sales, Taxes, Years)
"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."
- Alicia Keys
(Related: Eyes, Favorite, First, Key, Name, Play, Songs)
"With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Life, People, Eye, Public)
"Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Nature, People, Eye, Human nature, Public)
"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love."
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
(Related: Love, Eyes, Suffering)
"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
- Larry King
(Related: Business, Eyes, Saying, World, Writers)
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Time, Blind, Eye, Law, Old, Right)
"That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: Being, Hunger, Longing, Terror)
"The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission."
- Mark Kirk
(Related: Men, War, Women, Action, Decision, Congress, Eyes, First, Military, Mission, Potential)
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: God, People, Destiny, Eye, Leaders, Play)
"One eye sees, the other feels."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Eye)
"Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes."
- Bill Klem
(Related: Action, Eye, Play)
"Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Actors, Being, Expression, Eyes, Voice, World)
"Look at life with the eyes of a child."
- Kathe Kollwitz
(Related: Life, Eyes)
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
- Rem Koolhaas
(Related: Now)
"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
- Ted Koppel
(Related: America, Eyes)
"At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games."
- Vladimir Kramnik
(Related: Confidence, Eyes, Fighting, Games, Trying)
"I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along."
- Peter Krause
(Related: People, Being, Children, Eyes, Fact, Present, Relationships)
"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Eye, Mind, State)
"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Being, Feeling, Listening, Words)
"I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody."
- Mike Krzyzewski
(Related: Lie, Eye, Respect, Right, Talk)
"The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee."
- Leonid Kuchma
(Related: Eyes, World)
"Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Baby, Eyes)
"I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes."
- Aleksandr I. Kuprin
(Related: Life, Eyes, Man, World)
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Life, Society, Mother, Father, Eyes, Kids)
"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
- Thomas Kyd
(Related: Death, Life, Eyes, Public, Tears, World, Wrongs)
"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"
- Christine Lahti
(Related: Chance, Eye, Job, Sense, Theatre)
"You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision."
- Veronica Lake
(Related: Talent, Vision, Eye)
"It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with."
- Joe Lando
(Related: Language, Night)
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
- Dorothea Lange
(Related: Eyes, Nothing)
"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
- Dorthea Lange
(Related: Eyes, Nothing)
"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time."
- Meyer Lansky
(Related: Society, Time, People, Now, Worry)
"All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games."
- Meyer Lansky
(Related: Sports, God, Honesty, Day, Games, World)
"They say eyes clear with age."
- Philip Larkin
(Related: Age, Eyes)
"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."
- Charles Laughton
(Related: Eye)
"You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle."
- Jude Law
(Related: Heart, Battle, Eyes, Fact, Feet)
"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Design, Art, Blood, Eyes)
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Dreams, Men, Act, Day, Eyes, May, Night, Open)
"We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us."
- Henry Lawson
(Related: English, Extremes, Eyes, Independence, Individuality, Merit, Study)
"This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted."
- Frederick Leboyer
(Related: Eyes)
"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Eyes, Memories, Reality)
"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Life, Poetry, Country, Eyes, Flowers, Names, Open, Teaching)
"And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene."
- Sheryl Lee
(Related: Love, Thought, Heart)
"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."
- John Leeson
(Related: Actors, Eye)
"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?"
- John Lennon
(Related: Being, Eye)
"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Wife, Day, Eye, Illusion, Living)
"I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time."
- Sergio Leone
(Related: Time, America, Eyes)
"I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community."
- Tea Leoni
(Related: Family, Community, Question)
"I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner."
- Lisa Leslie
"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Eye)
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Eyes, Man)
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
- Primo Levi
(Related: Nature, Gossip)
"Nothing ever ends."
- Meyer Levin
(Related: Nothing)
"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."
- Philip Levine
(Related: Time, Attention, Eternity, Eyes, Saying)
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Eyes, Light, Meaning, Universe)
"Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Eyes, Global warming, Today)
"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
- A. J. Liebling
(Related: Food, American, Blind, Leading, Teaching)
"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."
- Maya Lin
(Related: Death, Eye, Light)
"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
- Richard Linklater
(Related: Eyes, World)
"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
- Gabriel Lippmann
(Related: Eye)
"Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Men, Movies, Artist, Eyes, Fight, Style)
"The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye."
- Ron Livingston
(Related: Day, Eye, First)
"This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions."
- Titus Livius
(Related: History, Actions, Eyes)
"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes."
- John Locke
(Related: Men, Darkness, Eyes)
"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
- James Loeb
(Related: Men, Nature, Aspirations, Blind, Day, Eyes, Fact, Man, Nothing, Old)
"They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary."
- Meyer London
(Related: Talk)
"I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds."
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(Related: Blood, Eye, Right, Wounds)
"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea."
- Federico Garcia Lorca
(Related: Money, Eyes, Sea)
"If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."
- Sophia Loren
(Related: Eyes)
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
- Sophia Loren
(Related: Beauty, Eyes)
"I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes."
- Pierre Loti
(Related: Time, Eyes, Living)
"A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement."
- Trent Lott
(Related: Truth, Impression, Choice, Nothing, Past, Poor, Words)
"When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Family, Friends, Parents, Praise, Reading, Words, World)
"It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore."
- Lance Loud
(Related: Gay, Pleasure)
"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Eye)
"A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Eyes, Gentleman, Present)
"Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye."
- Samuel Lover
(Related: Eye, Smile)
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Love, Disguise, Eyes, Man)
"The eye is the notebook of the poet."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Eye)
"I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time."
- Josh Lucas
(Related: Love, Time, People, Eyes, World)
"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Eyes, Man, Old, Self, Woman)
"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."
- Lorna Luft
(Related: Mother)
"Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen."
- Lydia Lunch
(Related: Life, Time, Action, Eye, Mind, Thinking, Trying)
"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Truth, Committee, Eye, Republican)
"Night hath a thousand eyes."
- John Lyly
(Related: Eyes, Night)
"I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true."
- Diana Lynn
(Related: Day, Eye, Forget, Passion, Promise, Smile, Will)
"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Death, Time, Eye, Old)
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: War, Difference)
"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Order)
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Eyes, Name, Poets, Thinking)
"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."
- George MacDonald
(Related: Love, Eyes)
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Wishes)
"War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer."
- Charles Mackay
(Related: Men, Time, War, Eyes, Glory, Nations, Quarrel)
"We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no."
- Andrea Mackris
(Related: Agreement, Saying, Talk)
"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."
- Anne Sullivan Macy
(Related: Agitation, Driving, Eye)
"I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound."
- Greg Maddux
(Related: Eye)
"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Society, People, Eye, Heroes, Nothing)
"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
- Gustav Mahler
(Related: Impulses, Man)
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: People, America, Eye, Sound, Wind)
"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."
- Joseph de Maistre
(Related: Afterlife, Day, Eyes, Man, Pleasure, Risk)
"A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye."
- Bernard Malamud
(Related: Eye, Writer)
"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Ideas, Eyes, Light, Order)
"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
- Peter Malkin
(Related: Eyes)
"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Love, Life, Children)
"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Eye)
"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
- Marya Mannes
(Related: Money, Desire, Eye, May)
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Animals, Cowards, Eye, Obstacles, Sight, Spring, Will)
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
- Bob Marley
(Related: Life, Eyes, Living, Open)
"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: Family, Eyes)
"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
- Wynton Marsalis
(Related: Idea, Corruption, Democracy, Eyes, Public)
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
- Agnes Martin
(Related: Art, Beauty, Life, Awareness, Eye, Mind, Mystery, Perfection)
"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Eyes)
"So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone."
- Kathy Mattea
(Related: Life, Eyes, Open)
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Eyes, Meaning, Now)
"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
- Henry Mayhew
(Related: London)
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
- Rachel McAdams
(Related: Eye, Hurt)
"I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye."
- David McCallum
(Related: Life, Eye)
"I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head."
- Andrew McCarthy
(Related: Change, Life, Movies, Thought, Eye)
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Character, American, Eyes, Humanity)
"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Age, Eye)
"My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and."
- Karen McDougal
(Related: Dream, Man, Paris, Will, Wine)
"The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways."
- Bryant H. McGill
(Related: Eyes, Malice, May, Open)
"I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Time, Eye)
"Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark."
- Audrey Meadows
(Related: Talent, Eye, Right)
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Thought, Eye)
"I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat."
- Maria Menounos
(Related: Love, Being)
"That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine."
- Johnny Mercer
(Related: Eyes, Magic, Old, Witchcraft)
"Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth."
- Larry Merchant
(Related: Wisdom, Truth, Actor, Eye)
"I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table."
- Lennart Meri
(Related: Eyes)
"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."
- Ethel Merman
(Related: Christmas, Eyes, Tears, Weddings)
"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Peace, Soul, Heart, Christ, Eyes, Feet, Joy, Open)
"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
- Thomas Merton
(Related: Death, Life, Eyes, Light)
"Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve."
- Debra Messing
(Related: Actor, Actors, Eye, Influence, Opinion, Opinions, Public, Want, Weight)
"It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration."
- Agnes E. Meyer
(Related: Quality, People, American, Population, Question, World)
"The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology."
- Agnes E. Meyer
(Related: Authority, Churches, Light, Preaching, Psychology, Religious, Youth)
"I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single."
- Breckin Meyer
(Related: Being, Fun, Thinking, Want)
"I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination."
- Breckin Meyer
(Related: Imagination, First, Information, Reading, Variety, World)
"Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Life, Fun, Mind, Open)
"I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Hope, Girls, Rest, School)
"I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Time, People, Goals, Day, Fun)
"I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Goals, Day)
"They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today."
- Debbie Meyer
(Related: Women, Time, College, May, Today)
"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Building, Will)
"The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Adventure)
"Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Society, People, Books, Libraries, Schools)
"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Difference)
"Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Art, Accident, Trying)
"As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Control, Weather, Words, Writer)
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Enthusiasm)
"Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Enthusiasm, Interest)
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Act, Desire)
"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Success, Goals)
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Accident, Commitment, Effort, Excellence, Planning, Productivity, Result)
"Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Mistakes)
"Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Thought, Action, Writing)
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Possibility, Defeat, Giving, Problems)
"Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Progress, Effort)
"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: People, Determination, Goals, Confidence, Obstacles)
"Consider every mistake you do make as an asset."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Mistake)
"Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Success, Career, Communication, Connection, Key)
"If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: Progress, Goals)
"May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera."
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
(Related: Peace, God, Heaven, Mankind, May, New year, Prosperity, Unity, World)
"Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died."
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
(Related: Religion, Name, Promise, Will)
"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame."
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
(Related: Creativity, Fame)
"If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds."
- Alice Meynell
(Related: Crowds, Eyes, Loneliness)
"You can tell a lot from someone's eyes."
- Lorne Michaels
(Related: Eyes)
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
- Michelangelo
(Related: Eye, Eyes, Judges)
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
- Michelangelo
(Related: Beauty, Love, Heart, Day, End, Eyes, Light, Youth)
"If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel."
- Bette Midler
(Related: Eye)
"When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me."
- Shannon Miller
(Related: Extreme, Eye, Pressure, Public)
"No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Dreams, Food, Blind, Eye, Man)
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
- Joni Mitchell
(Related: Clarity, Complaining, Eyes, Sensitivity, Song)
"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Love, Soul, Dream, Life, Eyes, World)
"Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow."
- Ricardo Montalban
(Related: Life, Eye, Land)
"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."
- Eugenio Montale
(Related: Happiness, Eyes, Feet, Light, May)
"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: God, Eye, Joy)
"What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood."
- Mary Tyler Moore
(Related: Blood, Dying, Eye)
"The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing."
- Thomas More
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Lies, Light, Woman)
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Example, Fiction, Poets, Writing)
"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."
- Christopher Morley
(Related: Life, Time, Chance, End, Eyes, Now, Will)
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: Eyes, Shadows, Trees)
"When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!"
- Bob Mould
(Related: People, Winning, Eyes)
"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"
- Max Muller
(Related: Love, Mother, Father, Heart, Despair, Eyes, First, Light, Reflection, World)
"There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion."
- Samantha Mumba
(Related: Age, Attitude, American, Artists, Opinion, Want)
"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Eye, Memories, Moments, Nothing, Painting, Simplicity)
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Being, Eyes)
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Nature, Soul, Eye)
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."
- Hector Hugh Munro
(Related: Friendship, Eyes)
"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes."
- Iris Murdoch
(Related: Love, Eyes, World)
"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
- James Patrick Murray
(Related: Legal, Baseball, Eye, Illusion, Umpire)
"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
- Miyamoto Musashi
(Related: Eye)
"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."
- Michael Musto
(Related: Eye, Lying)
"Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form."
- Guru Nanak
(Related: Eye, Eyes)
"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: Men, Politics, Eyes, Succeed)
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Beauty, Adventure, Charm, End, Eyes, Open, World)
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
- Horatio Nelson
(Related: Blind, Eye, Right)
"I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Money, Work, Actor, Blindness, Eye, Will)
"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."
- Richard John Neuhaus
(Related: Church, Eyes, Open)
"I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me."
- Aaron Neville
(Related: People, Eyes, Want, World)
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: History, Eyes, October)
"The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Opportunity, Eyes, Jobs, Play, Public, Safety, Sense, Space)
"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."
- Claude Nicollier
(Related: Energy, Eye, Night, Sky, Stars, Sun)
"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."
- Leslie Nielsen
(Related: Eye)
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Friendship, Love, Blind, Eyes)
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Opinion)
"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Truth, Eyes, Result)
"Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal."
- Earl Nightingale
(Related: Goal, Eye)
"I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo."
- Birgit Nilsson
(Related: Eyes)
"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Eye)
"Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law."
- Gary North
(Related: God, Blessings, Law, Obedience, Satan, Will)
"In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God."
- Michael Novak
(Related: Time, God, Eyes)
"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."
- Phillip Noyce
(Related: Eyes, School)
"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"
- Rudolf Nureyev
(Related: Love, Conversation, Dumb)
"My feet are dogs."
- Rudolf Nureyev
(Related: Dogs, Feet)
"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."
- Rudolf Nureyev
(Related: Inspiration)
"Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Time, Women, Health, Care, Eye, Job, Mental health)
"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Lie, Eyes, Now)
"I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Eyes, Secrets)
"You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies."
- Steve Odland
(Related: Decision, Financial, Eyes)
"It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Eye, Man, Manners)
"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes."
- Maureen O'Hara
(Related: Audiences, Eyes, London)
"Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at."
- Peter Oliver
(Related: Men, Heart, Boston, Exaggeration, Eye)
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
- Laurence Olivier
(Related: Actor, Eyes)
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
- Laurence Olivier
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
- Austin O'Malley
(Related: Happiness, Eye, Harvest, Quiet)
"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Related: Faith, Family, Children, Eyes, Future, World)
"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."
- Roy Orbison
(Related: Dreams, Eyes, Magic, Night, Prayer)
"A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate."
- Baroness Orczy
(Related: Eye, Hate, Lust, Name, Vengeance)
"It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period."
- Bill O'Reilly
(Related: Work, People, Country, Eye, Ladies, Gentlemen, Poverty, Succeed)
"That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off."
- Julia Ormond
(Related: Work, Eyes, Hard work, Help)
"It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough."
- Julia Ormond
(Related: Experience, Eyes, Learning)
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
- George Orwell
(Related: War, Country, Profit)
"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."
- George Orwell
(Related: Eyes, Faces, Reason, Ugliness)
"I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye."
- Jack Osbourne
(Related: Family, Being, Eye, Fact, Fans, Public, Support, Treatment)
"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away."
- Marie Osmond
(Related: Eyes, Want)
"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
- Rudolf Otto
(Related: Eyes, Light, Mythology)
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
- Ovid
(Related: Nature, Soul, Eyes, Sight)
"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."
- Clive Owen
(Related: Body, Eyes)
"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great."
- Major Owens
(Related: Eyes)
"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
- Al Pacino
(Related: Heart, Eye, Fool)
"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."
- Russell Page
(Related: Imagination, Eye, Needs)
"When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: People, Eye, Public)
"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Being, Eye)
"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Eyes, Trees)
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
- Gilbert Parker
(Related: Love, Eyes, Stars)
"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."
- Dolly Parton
(Related: Home, Eyes)
"We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Eyes)
"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
- John Dos Passos
(Related: Movies, Advertising, Eyes, May)
"For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks."
- George Pataki
(Related: Time, Effort, Eyes, First, Investigation, State)
"In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike."
- Walter Pater
(Related: Failure, Habit, Eye, Sense, World)
"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."
- Saint Patrick
(Related: Eyes)
"Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it."
- Sean Paul
(Related: Music, Talent, Energy, Eye, Public, Want)
"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."
- James Payn
(Related: People, Idea, Literature)
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
- Octavio Paz
(Related: Eyes)
"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Eye, Result)
"There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open."
- George Peppard
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment."
- Elizabeth Perkins
(Related: Daughter, Embarrassment, Eyes, Now, Right)
"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Eyes)
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Competence, Eye)
"Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect."
- Lou Diamond Phillips
(Related: Time, Women, Clothes, Ladies, Losing, Pain, Respect, Trying, Weight)
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Eyes)
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Eyes, Order)
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Eyes)
"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Work, Eye)
"The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them."
- Albert Pike
(Related: Creation, Eyes, Man, Melancholy)
"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
- Kenneth L. Pike
(Related: Eyes)
"Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued."
- Frank Pittman
(Related: Eyes, Man, World)
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Eyes, World)
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
- Plato
(Related: Soul, Vision, Eyes)
"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Beginning, End, Eye)
"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."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Eye, Open, Space, Will)
"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Being, Eyes, Want)
"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Eyes, Man, World)
"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Merit, Pretty, Sight)
"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Eyes, Will)
"Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again."
- Beatrix Potter
(Related: God, Lie, Bed, Eye, Land, Old, Will)
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Eye, Jargon)
"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Time, People, American, Americans, Disgrace, Economy, Eyes, Judgment)
"No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars."
- Llewelyn Powys
(Related: Eyes, Night, Provocative, Sight, Sky, Stars)
"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living."
- Terry Pratchett
(Related: Life, Eyes, Fact, Living)
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
- Hugo Pratt
(Related: Dreams, End, Eyes, Open)
"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Movies, Direction, Hollywood, Production, Songs)
"Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Eyes, Now)
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Discovery, Eyes)
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Discovery, Eyes)
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Discovery, Eyes)
"Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain."
- Philip Pullman
(Related: Love, Men, Butterflies, Eyes, Pain)
"I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes."
- Edward M. Purcell
(Related: Eyes, First, Snow, Winter, Years)
"In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: Victory, Being, Despair, Excitement, Expression, Eyes, Hatred, Nothing)
"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."
- Robert Quillen
(Related: Genius, Ability, Attention, Mind)
"Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington."
- Yitzhak Rabin
(Related: American, Eyes, Israel, Washington)
"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Love, Soul, Eyes, Fire, Silence, Voice)
"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Death, Day, Eyes, Light, Purity)
"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Eyes, Glory, Name, Shame)
"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Eyes, Hell, Shadows)
"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Birds, Expression, Eyes)
"One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either."
- Charlotte Rampling
(Related: Women, Eye, Pretty)
"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."
- A. Philip Randolph
(Related: Eye, Nothing, World)
"He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it."
- Leopold Von Ranke
(Related: Eyes, Ruin)
"I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms."
- Usher Raymond
(Related: Women, Mother, Advice, Eye)
"I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!"
- Jerry Reed
(Related: God, Eyes, Open)
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Work, Dream)
"It's an ear job, not an eye job."
- Donald T. Regan
(Related: Eye, Job)
"I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes."
- Tara Reid
(Related: Power, Eyes)
"But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference."
- Mitchell Reiss
(Related: Money, People, Ideas, Financial, Difference, Eye, Honor, Key)
"I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face."
- Denise Richards
(Related: Right, Style)
"But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit."
- Denise Richards
(Related: Now)
"Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me."
- Denise Richards
"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Eyes, Talk, Words)
"Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring."
- Manfred von Richthofen
(Related: English, Eyes, May, Opponents, Stupidity)
"However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Legal, Sex, Disgrace, Eyes, Rights, Law, Protection, Saying, Support)
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Eye)
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
- Cavett Robert
(Related: Time, Eye)
"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty."
- Henry Martyn Robert
(Related: Eyes, Law, Liberty, Man, Right)
"I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy."
- Robin Roberts
(Related: Eyes, Sun)
"And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!"
- Ann Robinson
(Related: Play)
"I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy."
- Bryan Robson
(Related: History, Manager, Being, Eyes, First)
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Death, Eye, Sun)
"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Life, Discontent, Europe, Eyes, Sea)
"To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth."
- Auguste Rodin
(Related: Nature, Truth, Artist, Eyes, Name, Open)
"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
- Auguste Rodin
(Related: Intelligence, Nature, Eyes)
"I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game."
- Dennis Rodman
(Related: Love, Body, Eyes, Pain)
"When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent."
- Jai Rodriguez
(Related: Mom, God, Church, Eye, Support)
"You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that."
- Wayne Rogers
(Related: People, Hope, Conversation, Eye, Public)
"When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Time, Life, Acting, Company, Eyes, Fool, Ladies)
"Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Eyes)
"I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Time, Eyes)
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Eyes, Feet, Stars)
"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away."
- Christina G. Rossetti
(Related: Blind, Eyes, Facts)
"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away."
- Christina Rossetti
(Related: Blind, Eyes, Facts)
"She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth."
- Christina Rossetti
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Hope, Eyes, Joy, Vanity, Youth)
"We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential."
- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
"As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world."
- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
(Related: Work, Brothers, Cause, Harm, Will, World)
"Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind."
- Georges Rouault
(Related: Artists, Blind)
"Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?"
- Karl Rove
(Related: Debt, Eye, Years)
"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
- Galen Rowell
(Related: Eye, Film, World)
"Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times."
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Life)
"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought."
- Josiah Royce
(Related: Thought, Eyes, Individuality, Poor, Sense, World)
"Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity."
- Warren De la Rue
(Related: Nature, Laws)
"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."
- Geoffrey Rush
(Related: Eye, Hurt, Now)
"We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked."
- David Dean Rusk
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Life, Architecture, Eye, Spirit)
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
- George William Russell
(Related: Beauty, Eyes)
"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."
- Babe Ruth
(Related: Home, Eyes, Reading)
"Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine."
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
(Related: Earth, Eyes, Palestine, Today)
"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."
- Robert Ryan
(Related: Character, Attention, Eyes, Feeling, Portraits, Project)
"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him."
- Mark Rydell
(Related: Actor, Eyes)
"Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye."
- Sa'Di
(Related: Impression, Heart, Eye)
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."
- Francoise Sagan
(Related: People, Eyes, Reality, Writer)
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Heart, Eye, Now)
"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Being, Eyes, Man, Right, Self, Sin)
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Heart, Eye)
"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."
- J. D. Salinger
(Related: Movies, Heart, Eyes)
"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."
- George Sand
(Related: Beauty, Soul, Body, Eye, Eyes)
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Idea, Advertising, Eye, Man, Thinking)
"Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye."
- Jacopo Sannazaro
(Related: Son, Envy, Evil, Eye, Influence)
"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."
- Carlos Santana
(Related: Life, Eyes, Feet)
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
- George Santayana
(Related: Country, Eyes, Feet, Man, World)
"I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need."
- Susan Sarandon
(Related: Life, Blind, Day, Eye, Injustice, Present)
"Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity."
- Dorothy Sarnoff
(Related: Time, Eye, Eyes, Sincerity)
"I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids."
- Graeme Le Saux
(Related: Love, Eye, Kids)
"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Eyes, Struggle)
"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Food, Eye)
"The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome."
- Vincent Schiavelli
(Related: Eye)
"The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year."
- Kyle Schmid
(Related: Day, Eyes, First)
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
- Kyle Schmid
(Related: Change, People, Eyes, Obstacles, Past)
"When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again."
- Stanley Schmidt
(Related: People, Example, Eyes)
"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Thoughts, Eyes)
"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood."
- Liev Schreiber
(Related: Business, Eyes, Wood)
"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."
- Dwight Schultz
(Related: Eyes, Fact, Public, Talk, Want)
"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Class, Eye, Middle class, Party)
"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Funny, People, Eye, Public)
"I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: People, Friends, Old, Restaurants, Talk)
"Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Life, People, Eyes, Learning, Open, Trying, World)
"Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it."
- Simone Schwarz-Bart
(Related: Heart, Day, Eye, Light, Now, Sun)
"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Eye, Will)
"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Life, Ideas, Eyes, First, Invention, Waking)
"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."
- Walter Scott
"People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time."
- W. G. Sebald
(Related: Time, People, Ability, Eyes, Forget, Germany, Want)
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
- Gaius Plinius Secondus
(Related: Eye)
"My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: Eye, Kitchen, Right, Skin)
"We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Family, People, Opportunity, Eyes, Help)
"This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Eye, May, Open)
"Do everything as in the eye of another."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Eye)
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
- Yahoo Serious
(Related: Eyes, Sense, Will, World)
"It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears."
- Rod Serling
(Related: Eye, May)
"When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters."
- John Sexton
(Related: Ability, Eyes, Nothing, Tears)
"Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Eyes, Now, Want, Will)
"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."
- Peter Shaffer
(Related: Love, Eyes, Opera)
"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know."
- Ben Shahn
(Related: Decision, Eye, Photography)
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Children, Eyes, Fathers, Judgment, May, Wrong)
"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Happiness, Eyes, Man)