Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Smithson

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.

Robert Smithson

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Robert Smithson

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Robert Smith

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Robert Plant

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

Robert Lowell

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye

Sarah Vowell

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

Sarah Mlynowski

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

Sarah McLachlan

Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.

Sarah MacLean

How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that was what she was. Wasn’t it?” “Yes.” “How very fascinating!” She smiled brightly. “I’ve never met a courtesan, you know.” “I could have surmised as such.” “She looked just as I imagined they did! Well, she was rather prettier.” Ralston’s eyes darted around the room as though he was looking for the quickest escape route. “Callie. Wouldn’t you rather gamble than talk about courtesans?

Sarah Kay

Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

Sara Gruen

Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?

Sara Shepard

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

Sara Shepard

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

Sanaa Lathan

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

Sanaa Lathan

In this day and age, especially with all the media and television, social media, and the Internet, we are constantly being compared and comparing ourselves to others' lives and journeys. Keep your eyes on your own road.

Sandra Bernhard

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

Sandra Bernhard

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

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.