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
  • Getting
  • U.S.

• 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

• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  

  Madeleine de Scudery
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Marriage

• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Lives

• I like running and swimming, and exercise four or five times a week, but not for long - about 30 minutes. I just exercise by myself and find that as I get older it becomes easier. In school I remember not enjoying running at all.

  

  Arizona Muse
  • Long
  • School
  • Remember

• I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.

  

  Kevin Abstract
  • Growing
  • Another
  • Could

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

  

  Bill Knott
  • Eyes
  • Alive
  • Read