Eyes Quotes

"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, Photographer

"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, Musician

"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, Musician

"I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die"

William Hurt, Actor

"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, Musician

"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, Dramatist

"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, Musician

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth"

Christopher Wren, Architect

"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"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, Musician

"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, Critic

"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"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, Author

"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, Historian

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

"The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us"

Bob Taft, Politician

"True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break"

Edward Dyer, Poet

"Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right"

Bob Kane, Artist

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"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, Actor

"I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"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, Athlete

"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long"

Walker Evans, Photographer

"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, Actor

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become"

Brooke Foss Westcott, Theologian

"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, Photographer

"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand"

Yves Tanguy, Artist

"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, Director

"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, Musician

"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, Athlete

"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, Writer

"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, Poet

"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, Actress

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