Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Young

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

Adam Smith

Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

Adam Levine

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

Adam Gopnik

We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

Ada Leverson

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ad Reinhardt

The eye is a menace to clear sight.

Abraham Kuyper

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Abraham Cowley

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.

Michelle Yeoh

We had to learn in just six weeks what geishas spend their whole lives learning. There were seven torture rooms, ... But we were lucky that Kaori and Ken were there to keep an eye on us to make sure we were doing it properly. Please forgive us if we did anything wrong.

Jack Johnson

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

We made eye contract, ... If I could do it again, I think I would have kept it and tried to go in and score.

We made eye contact. There was no talking. We heard what we thought was a gunshot. We weren't sure.

We made eye contact, I kind of pointed up and he saw me streaking down the sideline, so he threw up there. It was nice. It was pretty sweet.

Robert Kiyosaki

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Petrarch

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

Denis Waitley

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

William Shakespeare

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

William Shakespeare

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

William Shakespeare

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

William Shakespeare

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

William Shakespeare

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

Maurice Maeterlinck

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Steve Johnson

(With the bye, Concord's) had nothing to think about but us, while we had to think about Garrett. If you get hit between the eyes like they did, you're going to come to play, and they're a good team. That score last time was much wider than how I think the teams compare.

We've just kind of kept our eye on it and looked hopeful throughout the evening.

Dane Cook

It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest would say it five times rapid fire. He'd go, “My peace I leave, my peace I give to you. While we ate Reese's Pieces with the Lord. And I have a piece of lint in my peaceful eye!

David Cassidy

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

David Byrne

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

Dave McKean

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Dave Matthews

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

Dave Matthews

When I step into the light My arms are open wide When I step into the light My eyes searching wildly

Dave Eggers

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.