Eyes Quotes

"My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"My 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"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage"

Frank Capra, Director

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I will know him by his eyes"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can"

Martha Beck, Author

"Night hath a thousand eyes"

John Lyly, Writer

"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"I go to work the minute I open my eyes"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier"

Ellen Wilkinson, Politician

"I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great"

Major Owens, Politician

"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human"

William Gibson, Writer

"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better"

John Carmack, Scientist

"The 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"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years"

Trisha Goddard, Entertainer

"Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him"

Jeff Zucker, Businessman

"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

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