Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

Rumi

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

Rumi

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.

Rumi

Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.

Rumi

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Rumi

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Rumi

They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

Rumi

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

Tom Robbins

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Tom Robbins

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

Tom Lehrer

Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.

Tom Ford

The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.

Toby Keith

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Tony Hillerman

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

Steve Vai

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

Steve Forbes

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Steve Guttenberg

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

Steve Almond

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

Steve Albini

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

Stephen Crane

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

Stephen Crane

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

Stephen Covey

'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.

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 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.