Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Sher

DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

Barbara Sher

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Augustus Hare

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Auguste Rodin

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Auguste Rodin

Genius only comes to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Auguste Rodin

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

Augusten Burroughs

Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

Augusten Burroughs

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

Augusten Burroughs

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

Augusten Burroughs

A lot of people can be afraid of the masking because people can misrepresent themselves [in the Internet] and they can pose as people they're not. Well, yeah; that's true. That's one side of it. But the other side of it is that it equalizes you and if you happen to be a person who is not equal in the eyes of the greater society that's a damn good thing.

Arthur Machen

Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.

Arthur Koestler

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

Arthur Miller

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant

Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can't see

John Donne

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee

Senator Reid is focused on passing real, comprehensive reform. He feels we should keep our eye on that goal.

Seder is a kicker we had our eyes on,

Tim Ryan

So it is important for us to remember where this all started. And now, today, several years later, we have 19,000 troops in Afghanistan, and 140,000 troops in Iraq. We have forgotten and taken our eye off the ball.

Donald Rumsfeld

So if a mistake was made, a mistake was made, but it was made with our people on the ground, with eyes on the target,

George Stewart

She was trying to stab pencils in people's eyes.

She went in at halftime, her head was down, there were tears in her eyes.

Diane Keaton

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

Dee Dee Myers

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Dean Koontz

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

Dean Koontz

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Elbert Hubbard

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.