Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berthold Auerbach

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

This market isn't going to turn around until investors see the whites of the eyes of a profit recovery, and you're not likely to see that until the fourth quarter.

This is the 'Monday Night Football' for college. All eyes are on this.

They're having eye jobs and forehead lifts so they don't get traded in for a new model.

Duke Ellington

Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

Duke Ellington

In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

Doyle Brunson

Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

Douglas Wilder

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Douglas William Jerrold

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Dorothy Dix

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Donald Miller

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

Don Henley

You're driving with your eyes closed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The eyes of the world are upon you...

Colleen Jones

Data is your eyes, not your brain.

Colley Cibber

I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

Colleen McCullough

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.

Colin Wilson

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Colleen Hoover

When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.

Claudia Cardinale

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

Daniel Gibson

I really looked up to him. He pretty much overshadowed everything. He really just opened my eyes. It takes a big person to do that.

Investors are keeping an eye on oil as the intensifying standoff between the West and Iran looks to pick up steam.

Investing is a game with an eye on the future. People lost track of that in telecom during the last several years when the finish line might have been tomorrow or next week. This might get everyone else thinking that telecom is not doomed.

International investors have not gone into this with their eyes shut.

Willie Parker

I really didn't take any hits in college, so my career's really just beginning. I had to make a name for myself, open up some eyes that I can play.

If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes.

I have fatigue now and then if I get overheated - a typical symptom. Sometimes my eyes get fuzzy or my legs tingle. But I haven't had an out-and-out 'Whoa, I'm sick' day in five and a half years. It's gotten me through tough life situations and stressful times at work.

It has large eyes, a beak, it walked on two feet and had small hands.

I just couldn't get into a rhythm. We couldn't get to a lot of things we practiced because we had a lot of three-and-outs. I kept my eyes on the rush. I didn't keep my eyes downfield.

Al Groh

If the offensive line or secondary is not what the coordinator is coaching, that's something he's always got his eye on, ... Most of the adjustments that are made in a game are in the secondary.