Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence King

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Florence Welch

Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

Fisher Stevens

I love to travel, which is sort of why I do documentaries and why I'm in this whole world of movies - you get to meet amazing people and see how other people live. It opens your eyes. That's what I love.

Flann O'Brien

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

Flannery O'Connor

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Flannery O'Connor

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

Flannery O'Connor

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

Flannery O'Connor

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

Fetty Wap

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

Fetty Wap

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

Ferran Adria

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

Henry Moore

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

Henry Miller

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

Henry Miller

When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

Henry Miller

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

Henry Miller

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Henry Miller

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

Henri Barbusse

There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying “I wish” must say “I will.” And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

Henri Cartier-Bresson

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

Henny Youngman

I've kissed so many women I can do it with my eyes closed.

Helen Keller

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

Helen Keller

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

Helen Keller

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Helen Keller

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

Helen Keller

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Helen Keller

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Helen Keller

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

Helen Keller

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

Helen Keller

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.