Eyes Quotes

"Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole"

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government"

Gary Coleman, Actor

"I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil"

Balthus, Artist

"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver"

Adele, Musician

"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

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