Eyes Quotes

• Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Hope
  • Reaction
  • Radiant

• I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Clever

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Honor

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Lying

• 'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Long
  • City

• When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.

  

  Carmen Marton
  • World
  • Good
  • Focus

• Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Cool

• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • American
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• But as I listened to him, I felt a touch of coldness inside of me, as if I had suddenly become aware of the eyes of some dangerous creature. It passed in a moment, but I found myself shuddering.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Eyes

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Taken
  • Child

• Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • Time
  • Community

• What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Black
  • Eyes

• I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Truth

• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Time
  • Play
  • Keys

• I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

  

  John Adams
  • Eyes

• I tried putting teabags under my eyes because they say that the green tea - the caffeine - will help with under-eye bags and moisture. It worked! That's a new tip.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Help
  • Green
  • Tea

• I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Eyes

• It is Leistikow's lasting achievement - and will always remain so - that he found a style that can express the melancholy charm of the surroundings of Berlin. We see the Grunewald lakes and those on the upper Spree through his eyes; he has taught us to see their beauty.

  

  Max Liebermann
  • Eyes
  • Style
  • Achievement

• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Heart
  • Sky
  • Bird

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it's purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room... 'What if we make her a lesbian?'

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Lesbian

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