-
Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.
Author:
Jeff Zucker
-
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
-
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Author:
Xun Zi
-
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
-
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
-
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Author:
Neil Young
-
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
Author:
Loretta Young
-
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
-
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Author:
William Yeats
-
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Author:
William Wycherley
-
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
-
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Author:
Frank Wright
-
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Author:
Frank Wright
-
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Author:
Christopher Wren
-
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
-
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
Author:
John Wooden
-
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
-
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
-
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
The eyes of all people are upon us.
Author:
John Winthrop
-
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
Author:
Alex Winter
-
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
-
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.
Author:
Henry Williamson
-
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
Author:
Roy Williams
-
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
Author:
Esther Williams
-
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
Author:
Ellen Wilkinson
-
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Author:
Michael Wilding
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Author:
Laura Wilder
-
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.
Author:
Laura Wilder
-
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Author:
Edward Weston
-
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Author:
Brooke Westcott
-
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
Author:
Wim Wenders
-
People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
-
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Author:
Len Wein
-
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.
Author:
George Weah
-
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Author:
Alan Watts
-
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
Author:
Muddy Waters
-
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
Author:
Mika Waltari
-
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
Author:
David Wallace
-
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.
Author:
Richard Wall
-
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
Author:
Murray Walker
-
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
Author:
Don Vliet
-
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
-
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.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
-
Who can blind lover's eyes?
Author:
Virgil
-
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.
Author:
Joan Vinge
-
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
-
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
Author:
Alfred Vigny
-
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.
Author:
Antonio Vieira
-
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
Author:
Jules Verne
-
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.
Author:
Gwen Verdon
-
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.
Author:
Giuseppe Verdi
-
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
-
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.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
-
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.
Author:
William Tyndale
-
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.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
-
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Author:
Mark Twain
-
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
-
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
-
He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.
Author:
Leopold Trepper
-
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
Author:
Georg Trakl
-
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
Author:
Georg Trakl
-
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun!
Author:
Charles Towne
-
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.
Author:
Benicio Toro
-
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Author:
Jean Toomer
-
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
-
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.
Author:
Meg Tilly
-
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Author:
Gene Tierney
-
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Author:
Uma Thurman
-
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Author:
Henry Thoreau
-
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
-
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
-
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
-
George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
Author:
Keith Thibodeaux
-
Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
Author:
John Thaw
-
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Author:
Randall Terry
-
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.
Author:
Elizabeth Taylor
-
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.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
-
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Author:
Yves Tanguy
-
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.
Author:
Amy Tan
-
Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
Author:
Bob Taft
-
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
-
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.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
-
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
-
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
Author:
Bram Stoker
-
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
Author:
Bram Stoker
-
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Author:
Karlheinz Stockhausen
-
If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.
Author:
Ben Stiller
-
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
-
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
-
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
Author:
John Steinbeck
-
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
-
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
-
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.
Author:
Roger Staubach
-
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
-
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
-
When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.
Author:
Steven Squyres
-
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.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
-
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
Author:
Todd Solondz
-
A fool is wise in his eyes.
Author:
King Solomon
-
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
-
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
Author:
Robert Smith
-
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.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
-
A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.
Author:
Mike Simpson
-
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Author:
Charles Simeon
-
There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
Author:
M. Shyamalan
-
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
Author:
Michael Shermer
-
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Author:
Barbara Sher
-
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Author:
George Shaw
-
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
Author:
William Shatner
-
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.
Author:
Karl Shapiro
-
I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
Author:
Jonathan Shapiro
-
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Author:
William Shakespeare
-
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
-
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.
Author:
Ernest Shackleton
-
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
Author:
John Sexton
-
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
-
We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.
Author:
Connie Sellecca
-
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
Author:
W. Sebald
-
In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
-
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
-
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.
Author:
Stanley Schmidt
-
This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.
Author:
Kyle Schmid
-
The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year.
Author:
Kyle Schmid
-
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Author:
Marilyn Savant
-
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
Author:
Dorothy Sarnoff
-
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Author:
George Santayana
-
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
-
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Author:
George Sand
-
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
Author:
J. Salinger
-
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
-
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.
Author:
Francoise Sagan
-
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
Author:
Mark Rydell
-
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
Author:
Robert Ryan
-
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
-
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Author:
Babe Ruth
-
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
Author:
George Russell
-
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
Author:
Josiah Royce
-
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
Author:
Georges Rouault
-
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.
Author:
Christina Rossetti
-
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
Author:
Christina Rossetti
-
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
-
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.
Author:
Andy Rooney
-
Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.
Author:
Cesar Romero
-
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
-
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
-
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
-
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.
Author:
Bryan Robson
-
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.
Author:
Robin Roberts
-
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.
Author:
Henry Robert
-
However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
-
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
-
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
-
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.
Author:
Tara Reid
-
I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!
Author:
Jerry Reed
-
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Author:
Leopold Ranke
-
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Author:
Ted Rall
-
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Author:
Jean Racine
-
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Author:
Jean Racine
-
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Author:
Jean Racine
-
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Author:
Jean Racine
-
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
Author:
Yitzhak Rabin
-
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.
Author:
Ernie Pyle
-
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Author:
Edward Purcell
-
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
Author:
Philip Pullman
-
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Author:
Marcel Proust
-
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Author:
Marcel Proust
-
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Author:
Marcel Proust
-
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.
Author:
Charley Pride
-
He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
Author:
Hugo Pratt
-
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
Author:
Llewelyn Powys
-
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again.
Author:
Colin Powell
-
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Author:
Antonio Porchia
-
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Author:
Alexander Pope
-
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Author:
Alexander Pope
-
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.
Author:
John Pomfret
-
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Author:
Plato
-
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Author:
Sylvia Plath
-
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
-
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.
Author:
Albert Pike
-
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
-
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
-
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
-
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
Author:
Richard Perle
-
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
Author:
Elizabeth Perkins
-
There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.
Author:
George Peppard
-
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Author:
Octavio Paz
-
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Author:
Saint Patrick
-
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.
Author:
George Pataki
-
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
Author:
John Passos
-
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
-
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
Author:
Dolly Parton
-
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
-
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Author:
Paracelsus
-
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.
Author:
Major Owens
-
The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
Author:
Clive Owen
-
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Author:
Ovid
-
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
-
You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
Author:
Marie Osmond
-
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Author:
George Orwell
-
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.
Author:
Julia Ormond
-
That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.
Author:
Julia Ormond
-
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.
Author:
Roy Orbison
-
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.
Author:
Jacqueline Onassis
-
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
-
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
-
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
-
You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.
Author:
Steve Odland
-
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Author:
Conor Oberst
-
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Author:
Conor Oberst
-
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.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
-
In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
Author:
Michael Novak
-
I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo.
Author:
Birgit Nilsson
-
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
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.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
-
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
Author:
Aaron Neville
-
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
-
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
-
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Author:
George Nathan
-
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Author:
Guru Nanak
-
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Author:
Iris Murdoch
-
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Author:
Hector Munro
-
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.
Author:
Edvard Munch
-
Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Author:
Max Muller
-
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!
Author:
Bob Mould
-
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Author:
Grandma Moses
-
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Author:
Thomas More
-
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.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
-
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Author:
Michelangelo
-
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Author:
Michelangelo
-
You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
Author:
Lorne Michaels
-
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
Author:
Alice Meynell
-
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
Author:
Ethel Merman
-
I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
Author:
Lennart Meri
-
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Author:
Johnny Mercer
-
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Author:
Bryant McGill
-
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
-
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
Author:
W. Maugham
-
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Author:
Groucho Marx
-
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
-
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.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
-
Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
Author:
Peter Malkin
-
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.
Author:
Charles Mackay
-
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
Author:
George MacDonald
-
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
-
Night hath a thousand eyes.
Author:
John Lyly
-
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Author:
Clare Luce
-
I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Author:
Josh Lucas
-
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
Author:
James Lowell
-
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Author:
Lawrence Lovasik
-
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.
Author:
Pierre Loti
-
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Author:
Sophia Loren
-
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
Author:
Sophia Loren
-
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.
Author:
Federico Lorca
-
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
Author:
James Loeb
-
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
Author:
John Locke
-
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Author:
Titus Livius
-
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.
Author:
Lucy Liu
-
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
Author:
Richard Linklater
-
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.
Author:
Joe Lieberman
-
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Author:
C. Lewis
-
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Author:
Philip Levine
-
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
-
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
Author:
Sergio Leone
-
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
-
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Author:
Frederick Leboyer
-
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Author:
Henry Lawson
-
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Author:
T. Lawrence
-
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
Author:
David Lawrence
-
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.
Author:
Jude Law
-
They say eyes clear with age.
Author:
Philip Larkin
-
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Author:
Dorthea Lange
-
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Author:
Dorothea Lange
-
Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.
Author:
Lisa Kudrow
-
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.
Author:
Leonid Kuchma
-
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.
Author:
Peter Krause
-
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
Author:
Vladimir Kramnik
-
I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
Author:
Ted Koppel
-
Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
-
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.
Author:
Mark Kirk
-
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Author:
Larry King
-
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
-
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.
Author:
Alicia Keys
-
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.
Author:
Francis Key
-
I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.
Author:
Deborah Kerr
-
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Author:
Rockwell Kent
-
Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!
Author:
John Kellogg
-
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Author:
Garrison Keillor
-
I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.
Author:
Willie Keeler
-
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Author:
Nikos Kazantzakis
-
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Author:
Nikos Kazantzakis
-
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.
Author:
Hamid Karzai
-
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
Author:
Yousuf Karsh
-
When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
Author:
Bob Kane
-
I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.
Author:
Al Kaline
-
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Author:
Juvenal
-
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
Author:
James Joyce
-
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.
Author:
Nafisa Joseph