Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Horowitz

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Anthony Kiedis

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Anthony Kiedis

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Alice Sebold

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

Alice Sebold

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

Alice Sebold

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

Alice Walker

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

Alice Walker

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Alice Oswald

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

Alice Munro

What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

Alice Hoffman

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Alice Eve

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

Alice Cooper

If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.

Anne McCaffrey

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

Amanda Harlech

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

Amanda Beard

Almost religiously, I step away from everything and close my eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments. It helps solidify my focus and aligns everything in my body to take care of the task at hand - which is winning, of course.

Alyssa Milano

Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

The fact that we had three reports that were the same made everyone's eyebrows go up.

The fact that he is not opening his eyes tonight, or not squeezing our hands tonight, is not an indication of his neurological status.

What I try to do is be the eyes of the place. I have to know what's going on because I'm the one who makes the decisions.

Alexander Payne

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

Alexander McCall Smith

It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

Alexander McCall Smith

Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

Alexander McQueen

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

Alexander Pope

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

Alexander Pope

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Alexander Pope

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.