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Eye Quotes

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."

Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

Eye, Pain, Sky, Stars

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

Margaret Fairless Barber, British Writer

"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"

Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."

Swami Vivekananda, Indian Clergyman

Eye, Eyes, Universe

"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."

Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Composer

Eye, Mind, State

"You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it."

Bruce Springsteen, American Musician

Eye, Right, Silly

"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."

Laurence Olivier, English Actor

Eye, Eyes, Open

"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

Eye, Eyes, Open

"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Eye, Makeup, Sheep, Want

"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."

Dwight Schultz, American Actor

Eye, Eyes, Fact, Public, Talk

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

"A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

Eye, Eyes, Gentleman, Present

"Tears are the noble language of the eye."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

Eye, Language, Tears

"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."

Max Beerbohm, English Actor

"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal."

Uma Thurman, American Actress

"Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes."

Cesar Romero, American Actor

"Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes."

Linda Evans, American Actress

Eye, Eyes, Right

"Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."

Richard Perle, American Public Servant

"I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo."

Birgit Nilsson, Swedish Musician

"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty."

Henry Martyn Robert, American Celebrity

Eye, Eyes, Law, Liberty, Man

"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."

Jam Master Jay, American Musician

Eye, Eyes, Open

"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."

Conrad Veidt, German Actor

"Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part."

Jeffrey Wright, American Actor

Eye, Eyes, Perspective, Sensitivity

"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area."

Ted Allen, American Entertainer

"This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted."

Frederick Leboyer, French Obstetrician

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

Orson Welles, American Actor

"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away."

Marie Osmond, American Musician

Eye, Eyes, Want

"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."

Ellen DeGeneres, American Comedian

"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater."

Steven Squyres, American Scientist

"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."

Shmuel Y. Agnon, Israeli Writer

"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."

Teresa Heinz, American Celebrity

"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see."

James Hetfield, American Musician

Eye, Fun, Games

"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."

Felix Bloch, Swiss Scientist

Eye, Eyes, Generations, Necessity, Pressure

"I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

Eye, Eyes, Now, Trying

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

Charles Laughton, English Actor

"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

Eye, Eyes, Future

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Eye, Eyes, Hollywood, Teenage

"I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes."

Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist

Eye, Eyes, First, Snow, Winter

"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."

Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor

"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Eye, Eyes, Martyr

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."

Clare Boothe Luce, American Dramatist

Eye, Eyes, Man, Old, Self

"Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over."

Jeff Buckley, American Musician

Eye, Eyes, Memories, Thinking

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