When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.
~By Megan Fox ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
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 ~
In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
~By Michael Novak ~
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
~By Russell Hoban ~
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
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.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
~By Len Wein ~
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
~By John Cleveland ~
Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
~By Robert Williams Buchanan ~
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
~By Anton Chekhov ~
I will know him by his eyes.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
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.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
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.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
~By Cesar Romero ~
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.
~By Alan Watts ~
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
~By Camille Claudel ~
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
~By Liev Schreiber ~
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.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
~By Georg Buchner ~
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 ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~By Henry Ford ~
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
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.
~By Dizzy Dean ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
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.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
~By Kate Smith ~
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
~By Mary Astell ~
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.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
~By Allan Dwan ~
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
~By Paramahansa Yogananda ~
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
~By Christopher Morley ~
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
~By Dolly Parton ~
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
~By Marie Osmond ~
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
~By Peter Malkin ~
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
~By William Bennett ~
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.
~By Felix Bloch ~
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.
~By George Weah ~
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
~By Titus Livius ~
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
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.
~By Gwen Verdon ~
You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
~By Lorne Michaels ~
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
~By Richard Bach ~
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
~By Willa Cather ~
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
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.
~By Alicia Keys ~
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
~By Janet Jackson ~
You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
~By John Gould ~
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
~By Carlos Santana ~
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
~By Loretta Young ~
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.
~By Michelangelo ~
When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.
~By Susan Anton ~
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
~By Bob Marley ~
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
~By Murray Walker ~
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.
~By Herman Gorter ~
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
~By Alphonse Daudet ~
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.
~By Mark Rydell ~
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
~By Aaron Neville ~
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
~By Thomas Gray ~
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.
~By Cesar Romero ~
I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.
~By Anna Friel ~
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.
~By Henry Lawson ~
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 ~
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
~By Robbie Coltrane ~
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.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
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.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
The eyes have one language everywhere.
~By George Herbert ~
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.
~By Ben Stiller ~
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.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.
~By Lee Van Cleef ~
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
~By George MacDonald ~
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