Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Albert Allard

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Willem de Kooning

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whoopi Goldberg

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

Whoopi Goldberg

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

Ronald Reagan

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Ronald Reagan

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Saint Augustine

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Saint Basil

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

Saint Basil

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

Saint Basil

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Saint Augustine

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Saint Augustine

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

Saint Augustine

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Tori Amos

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tori Amos

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

Vera Brittain

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

Vanessa Carlton

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power

Vanessa Hudgens

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush

Valentina Zelyaeva

Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season.

Valerie Bertinelli

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

Ugo Betti

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Ugo Betti

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

Ulrich Beck

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.

Uma Thurman

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

Rodney Mullen

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

Roger Ailes

Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.

Robert W. Service

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

Robert Morse

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

Robert Musil

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Robert Creeley

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Robbie Coltraine

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.

Rob Halford

I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

Richard Petty

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.