Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Archuleta

If you close your eyes to see the view, you miss everything surrounding you

David Attenborough

How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

David Attenborough

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?

Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

Davy Crockett

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

David Spade

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

David Paul

All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

David Livingstone

.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

David Lynch

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

David Chalmers

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

David Carson

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

Dan Brown

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Dan Brown

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Curtis Hanson

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

Curtis Jackson

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

Corey Hart

And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes

Corey Taylor

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes

Confucius

Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

Confucius

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

Daniel Woodrell

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

Daniel Webster

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

Ameen Rihani

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

Andy Kindler

George Lopez has to get a physical comedy checkup every year to make sure his bulging eyes don't get out of control... Good news George... you are humor free! There's no sign of comedy anywhere in your blood stream.

Andrew Davies

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

Ambrose Bierce

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

Ambrose Bierce

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

Ambrose Bierce

To the eye of failure success is an accident.

Ambrose Bierce

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Anthony Horowitz

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Anthony Kiedis

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Anthony Kiedis

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Alice Sebold

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.