Bill Knott Quotes

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

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

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Honor

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Alive
  • U.S.
  • Getting

• I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • American
  • Read
  • Crime

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• 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

• Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Eyes
  • Unique
  • Challenges

• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Sing

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Die
  • Alive

• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Black
  • Small

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Prayer

• My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Together

• Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

  

  Will Barnet
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Never
  • Characters
  • Which

• If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Eyes
  • Read
  • Alive