Eyes Quotes

"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, Writer

"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, Actor

"A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes"

Paul Eluard, Poet

"She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away"

Harry Chapin, Musician

"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves"

Michael Wilding, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Celebrity

"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness"

Stephen Vizinczey

"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"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, Athlete

"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, Historian

"He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day"

Leopold Trepper, Celebrity

"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses"

Robert Williams Buchanan, Poet

"This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted"

Frederick Leboyer

"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld"

Henry Williamson, Author

"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"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, Musician

"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, Actress

"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, Athlete

"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, Actress

"Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit"

Gwen Verdon, Dancer

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear"

Giuseppe Verdi, Composer

"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, Author

"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, Actress

"If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised"

Rockwell Kent, Artist

"The nurses were all angels in my eyes"

Randy Castillo, Musician

"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, Actress

"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, Musician

"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

"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, Journalist

"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, Actress

"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes"

Deborah Kerr, Actress

"To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents"

David Arquette, Actor

"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, Athlete

"His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!"

Richard Harris Barham, Comedian

"If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes"

Leon Edel, Critic

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification"

Richard Wall, Writer

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