I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
~By Sergio Leone ~
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.
~By Frank Capra ~
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.
~By Brooke Foss Westcott ~
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
~By Georg Trakl ~
People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
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.
~By Josiah Royce ~
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.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
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?
~By Max Muller ~
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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.
~By Jude Law ~
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 ~
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
~By Alphonse Daudet ~
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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.
~By Mika Waltari ~
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
~By Elias Canetti ~
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
~By Charles Dickens ~
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
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.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
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.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
~By Robert Bresson ~
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
~By Lynda Barry ~
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
~By James Caan ~
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.
~By Cesar Romero ~
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
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.
~By Henry Williamson ~
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.
~By Philip Pullman ~
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
~By Edvard Grieg ~
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.
~By Harvey Ball ~
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
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'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
~By Jane Birkin ~
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 ~
A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.
~By Mike Simpson ~
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.
~By Martha Beck ~
He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.
~By Leopold Trepper ~
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
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.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
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.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.
~By Steven Squyres ~
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
~By George Santayana ~
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
~By Rockwell Kent ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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.
~By Charley Pride ~
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
~By Randy Castillo ~
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.
~By Leonid Kuchma ~
Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
~By Robert Williams Buchanan ~
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
~By Saint Patrick ~
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
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 ~
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
~By Bob Marley ~
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
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 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.
~By William Tyndale ~
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.
~By Henry Martyn Robert ~
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
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 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.
~By Kyle Schmid ~
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 ~
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.
~By James Loeb ~
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.
~By Julia Ormond ~
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.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
~By Alexander Pope ~
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
~By Albert Hofmann ~
In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
~By Bruce Dern ~
Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.
~By Corey Hart ~
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 ~
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
~By Murray Walker ~
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