Eyes Quotes
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
Tags: Children, Simple ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Tags: Home, Year ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIt's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
Tags: Discipline, Hard ✍ Author: Ferran AdriaHeaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Tags: Heaven, Her ✍ Author: Muhammad AliFor 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.
Tags: Nature, Soul ✍ Author: Maya AngelouFew are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Tags: Few, Hearts ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Tags: Dead, Good ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinSmall is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Tags: Minds, Small ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinIf 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.
Tags: Dark, Light ✍ Author: C. S. LewisThe real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Tags: Head, Real ✍ Author: Marilyn MonroeYou can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Tags: Focus, Imagination ✍ Author: Mark TwainBut O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Tags: Another, Happiness ✍ Author: William ShakespeareChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Tags: Children, May ✍ Author: William ShakespeareDon'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.
Tags: Fly, Show ✍ Author: Richard BachSo 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.
Tags: Problem, Time ✍ Author: Dusty BakerSometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.
Tags: Legs, Sometimes ✍ Author: Rick BakerIn the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Tags: Justice, Matter ✍ Author: Tammy Faye BakkerDo not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
Tags: God, Great ✍ Author: Tammy Faye BakkerThere 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.
Tags: Help, Human ✍ Author: James A. BaldwinOne must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Tags: Cannot, Draw ✍ Author: BalthusTo 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.
Tags: Beautiful, Money ✍ Author: William BlakeThe 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.
Tags: Joy, Nature ✍ Author: William BlakeWhen soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Tags: Fire, Soldiers ✍ Author: Napoleon BonaparteVisit partners pages
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.
Tags: Dead, Dream ✍ Author: Ray BradburyYou're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
Tags: Else, Night ✍ Author: James CaanWhat 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.
Tags: May, Mean ✍ Author: Eileen CaddyLet 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.
Tags: Justice, Law ✍ Author: Christian CamargoThe day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Tags: Her, Truth ✍ Author: Alastair CampbellEvery decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Tags: Decision, Why ✍ Author: Elias CanettiMy motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
Tags: Baseball, Clear ✍ Author: Jose CansecoBut Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
Tags: Fantastic, Hands ✍ Author: Claudia CardinaleThe prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Tags: Martyr, Prophet ✍ Author: Benjamin CardozoAnd now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Tags: Glorious, Inspirational ✍ Author: William CareyTo us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Tags: God, Minds ✍ Author: Thomas CarlyleWhen a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Tags: Beautiful, Woman ✍ Author: Anton ChekhovThe countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Tags: Intentions, Soul ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillThe eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Tags: Body, Place ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillNo one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
Tags: Lie, Someone ✍ Author: Paulo CoelhoHedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
Tags: Him, Said ✍ Author: Saskia de BrauwPeople talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Tags: Hear, Talk ✍ Author: DMXWhat 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.
Tags: Dreams, Order ✍ Author: Salvador DaliThere is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
Tags: Bad, Strong ✍ Author: Salvador DaliIt'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.
Tags: Attitude, Game ✍ Author: Charles DanceThe big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
Tags: Pretty, Work ✍ Author: Claire DanesPoets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
Tags: Children, Poets ✍ Author: Alphonse DaudetI prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
Tags: Focus, Love ✍ Author: Andrew DaviesSometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Tags: Others, Yourself ✍ Author: Ellen DeGeneresIt opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Tags: Away, Cry ✍ Author: Charles DickensI 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.
Tags: Rather, Trying ✍ Author: Sheena EastonA lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Tags: Obama, Realizing ✍ Author: Clint EastwoodYou 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.
Tags: Away, Few ✍ Author: Roger EbertAny biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Tags: Become, Four ✍ Author: Leon EdelThat'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.
Tags: Lovely, Moment ✍ Author: Barbara EhrenreichI 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.
Tags: Become, Mind ✍ Author: Alfred EisenstaedtNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Tags: Nature, Wisdom ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonIt's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
Tags: Blue, Huge ✍ Author: Dakota FanningI like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.
Tags: Good, Love ✍ Author: Elle FanningWhen 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.
Tags: Black, Life ✍ Author: Suzanne FarrellWhereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.
Tags: Morning, Smile ✍ Author: Corey FeldmanI was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.
Tags: Deep, Life ✍ Author: Lupe FiascoThe 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.
Tags: Done, Work ✍ Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldEnthusiasm 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.
Tags: Energy, Stars ✍ Author: Henry FordObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Tags: Goal, Wisdom ✍ Author: Henry FordOnly people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
Tags: Allowed, Freedom ✍ Author: E. M. ForsterKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Tags: Keep, Marriage ✍ Author: Benjamin FranklinMaybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Tags: Become, Fighting ✍ Author: Eva GabrielssonWhen 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.
Tags: Single, Soul ✍ Author: Lady GagaThe sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Tags: May, Society ✍ Author: Ernest GainesRomantic 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.
Tags: Love, Romantic ✍ Author: Liam GallagherOne's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
Tags: Becomes, Mouth ✍ Author: John GalsworthyThat's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.
Tags: Cool, Fun ✍ Author: Jorge GarciaMy 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.
Tags: Big, Perfect ✍ Author: Jennifer GarnerI would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
Tags: Beauty, Expect ✍ Author: Jean Paul GaultierEyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Tags: Seen, Soul ✍ Author: Theophile GautierI feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
Tags: Education, Social ✍ Author: John White GearyThe hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Tags: Front, Hardest ✍ Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt 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.
Tags: Tired, Young ✍ Author: Gene HackmanGenerally 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.
Tags: Read, While ✍ Author: Margaret HaddixI feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?
Tags: Everyone, Making ✍ Author: Kathryn HahnA reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Tags: Broken, May ✍ Author: Joseph HallEverything 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.
Tags: God, Human ✍ Author: Johann Georg HamannA world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.
Tags: Once, Women ✍ Author: George HamiltonEyes 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.
Tags: Black, Emotional ✍ Author: Henry HamptonThe 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.
Tags: Effort, Sun ✍ Author: Learned HandIt's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
Tags: Life, Whole ✍ Author: Chelsea HandlerThe 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.
Tags: Money, Small ✍ Author: William Christopher HandyWe do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Tags: Hearts, Nature ✍ Author: William HazlittWhen 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.
Tags: Forget, Gonna ✍ Author: Jimi HendrixEyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Tags: Poor, Souls ✍ Author: Katharine HepburnJust as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Tags: Light, Minds ✍ Author: Napoleon Hill