Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Rutherford

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

Samuel Johnson

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

Samuel Johnson

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Robert Atkins

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

Rob Lowe

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

Richard Lugar

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Richard Linklater

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Richard M. Nixon

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.

Rian Johnson

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

Rebecca Pidgeon

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

Rich Sommer

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

Reba McEntire

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.

Ray Winstone

Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.

Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

Robert Delaunay

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

Roald Dahl

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

Richard Rohr

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Richard Rohr

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

Richard L. Evans

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

Tupac Shakur

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

Trevor Noah

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

Tracy Chevalier

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

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.