Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Stephan Jenkins

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

Stendhal

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

Spike Jonze

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Spike Milligan

This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in

Sigmund Freud

The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

Shirley Jackson

I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

Shirley Jackson

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

Shirley Jackson

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Shirley MacLaine

I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.

Sheri Fink

Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.

Shaun White

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.

Shaun White

Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.

Shailene Woodley

George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.

Sergio Leone

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Serj Tankian

I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.

Pope John Paul II

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

Pietro Metastasio

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

Pietro Aretino

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

Pierre Bonnard

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

Pierre Charron

He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?

Philippe Halsman

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

Philippa Gregory

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

Philippa Gregory

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Pope Francis

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

Pope Francis

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

Pope Francis

Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? . . . And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?

Kelly Ripa

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

Keith Green

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

Keith Haring

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.