Miranda July Quotes

He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

Miranda July

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• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Boxing

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Eyes
  • Animal
  • Visual

• It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Hands
  • Tough
  • Campaigning

• The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Chicago

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Power
  • Eyes
  • Sexy

• You know when a person goes into the ring to win, or at least not to lose. I mean, when a fighter is ready and goes to fight, than it can be seen by his look. Regardless of whether he gets hit or not, he goes forward, and regardless of whether he wins or loses, he wants to go forward, and it is clear from his burning eyes.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Eyes
  • Win
  • Fight

• I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Eyes

• Aenea smiled but her eyes still glistened. 'Humans have been waiting for Jesus and Yahweh and E. T. to save their asses since before they covered those asses with bearskins and came out of the cave,' she said. 'They’ll have to keep waiting. This is our business...our fight...and we have to take care of it ourselves.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • She
  • Business
  • Eyes

• I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Chill

• When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Green

• This airport has been designed with big windows viewing the runways, so if there's a crash everybody can feast upon it with their own eyes. The fireball, the fuselage doing a slow skidding twirl, shedding its wings.

  

  John Updike
  • Eyes

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Week
  • Storm
  • Lasts

• I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you surely don’t deserve me at my best.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Control
  • Selfish
  • Handle

• He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

  

  Miranda July
  • Eyes
  • Hands
  • Pulled