Eyes Quotes

"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, Statesman

"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, Journalist

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband"

Shana Alexander, Journalist

"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, Director

"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, Musician

"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, Entertainer

"Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears"

Antonio Vieira, Clergyman

"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, Politician

"They're just big in the eyes of the American public"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

"Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls"

Georg Trakl, Poet

"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, Statesman

"All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love"

Evelyn Underhill, Writer

"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, Athlete

"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, Musician

"Look at life with the eyes of a child"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

"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, Actress

"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, Actress

"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, Poet

"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot"

George Weah, Politician

"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, Actor

"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, Poet

"Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while"

Corey Hart, Musician

"Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"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, Politician

"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"I often shoot with scissors in my eyes"

Allan Dwan, Director

"President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"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, Musician

"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, Athlete

"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, Novelist

"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, Musician

"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, Cartoonist

"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"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, Writer

"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, Painter

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that"

Dolly Parton, Musician

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