Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Georg Buchner

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

Gene Hackman

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Jerry Andrus

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Jenna Marbles

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

Jennifer Aniston

I was doing interviews and a question came up about whether I had anything I was addicted to. I said 'I actually have an addiction to eye drops.' And like, as I was on the phone I'd had my third - in the hour! - dose. I had them with me all the time.

Jennifer Aniston

As my doctor said, eventually [your eyes] do start to give out on you if you're not taking care of them.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Jean Dubuffet

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

Gloria Estefan

For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

Giacomo Casanova

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

Jim Cramer

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Jessamyn West

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

I can see the frustration in the eyes of the forwards. Last weekend was the first weekend in a while where they looked like they were having fun.

I can see it in his eyes. He's itching to go out there, but they just won't let him.

Hunter S. Thompson

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Hunter S. Thompson

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

Hulk Hogan

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'

Hu Shih

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Hudson Taylor

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

Honore de Balzac

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.