Eye Quotes
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.
M.I.A.
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It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.
Kevin Keegan
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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
William Plomer
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I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.
Erin Brady
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Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.
Jimmy Buffett
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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
William H. Gass
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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
Cecil Rhodes
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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
William P. Young
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If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.
Eric Bell Thin Lizzy
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The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.
Kate Morton
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
William Hazlitt
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We wanted to give them something that would be a real eye opener. We wanted the children to see first hand how people pollute our environment and then let them get even more information here. We hope they will remember this the next time they go to throw a piece of paper on the ground.
Ashley Smith
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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
Freya Stark
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You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
Stephen Spender
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And we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
Ursula Dubosarsky
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He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
William Watson
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
William Shakespeare
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My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
Thomas Kinkade
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I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
K. P. Yohannan
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Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrest When your fond eyes smile near in perigee. But when that loving face is turned from me, Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear, And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear. You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox