Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
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.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
~By Kelly Jones ~
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~By Jean Racine ~
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
~By Loren Eiseley ~
I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
~By Cher ~
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.
~By Shannon Miller ~
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
~By Bob Kane ~
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
~By Kim Hunter ~
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
~By Loretta Young ~
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
~By John Donne ~
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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.
~By Meg Tilly ~
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.
~By Richard Widmark ~
I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.
~By Willie Keeler ~
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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.
~By Michelangelo ~
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
~By William Blake ~
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
~By Lorna Luft ~
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
~By James Sinegal ~
I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
~By Llewelyn Powys ~
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
~By Robert Browning ~
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.
~By Grandma Moses ~
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
~By Gaius Plinius Secondus ~
When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
~By Ellen Barkin ~
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
~By William C. Bryant ~
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
~By William Shenstone ~
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
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.
~By Charles Simeon ~
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
~By Samuel Lover ~
But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
~By Claudia Cardinale ~
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
~By Denise Richards ~
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.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
~By Margot Kidder ~
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
~By Ellen Wilkinson ~
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.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~By Mark Twain ~
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
~By George S. Kaufman ~
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
~By Karl Rove ~
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
~By Elizabeth Perkins ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
~By Yvon Chouinard ~
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
~By Alphonse Daudet ~
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.
~By John Wooden ~
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
~By Richard Linklater ~
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.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
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.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
~By Balthus ~
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
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.
~By Ben Harper ~
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.
~By Luke Wilson ~
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
~By William Alexander Henry ~
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
~By Bob Marley ~
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
~By Christine Baranski ~
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.
~By George Sand ~
I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
~By Don Van Vliet ~
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
~By Conrad Hall ~
A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.
~By January Jones ~
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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.
~By Antonio Vieira ~
I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.
~By David Ginola ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
~By Adolf Eichmann ~
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.
~By Mark Warner ~
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
~By E. M. Forster ~
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