Eyes Quotes

"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, Director

"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, Author

"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes"

Emanuel Ax, Musician

"The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes"

Mark Helprin, Novelist

"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, Actor

"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich"

Richard Linklater, Director

"They say eyes clear with age"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"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

"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

"Love's tongue is in his eyes"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"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, Author

"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, Politician

"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater"

Steven Squyres, Scientist

"In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"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

"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, Actor

"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, Novelist

"So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's"

Roberta Flack, Musician

"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, Politician

"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, Musician

"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, Journalist

"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, Journalist

"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, Musician

"I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out"

John Cleveland, Poet

"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, Journalist

"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, Actor

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others"

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

"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, Politician

"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, Poet

"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, Author

"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, Writer

"We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes"

Hunter Tylo, Actress

"These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

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