Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecil Rhodes

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Cecelia Ahern

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Cecelia Ahern

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Carrie Underwood

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

Carrie Underwood

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Carl Sagan

Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

Bette Davis

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

Arnold Schoenberg

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Arnold Schoenberg

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long. The first time bacteria were observed.

Antonia Fraser

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Bill Vaughan

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Bill Vaughan

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Bill Hicks

The eyes of love see all of us as one.

Charles R. Swindoll

Choose to view life through God's eyes.

Harry Reid

That would be a real poke in the eye with a sharp stick,

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

I would keep an eye on the upcoming vote. This isn't quite over yet.

Look at the fear in his eyes. This is not to gain compliance.

Looking into the eyes of world leaders, I saw destruction and wickedness.

My mother, she kind of kept an eye on it,

I was hoping it would stay in the ballpark. I kept my eye on it. I was hoping I wouldn't smash into the wall.

It escalates. The principle of revenge is still very much a part of this culture. It's an eye for an eye.

I think really that kind of opened William's eyes as to what kind of wrestler he could be.

Nick Cannon

Yo! I think this guy has a good eye and will be able to tell his story in a proper way.

Jim Jones

We couldn't have gotten a better pro. This guy loves being out here. You can see it in his eyes.

We must keep our eye on the ball; the NAFTA must be respected. Here is a prime opportunity for the U.S. to recommit to the treaty it signed, plain and simple.

We have a lot of eyes out there, ... We're just not going to do anything out here that we're going to hang our heads for.

We had it all set up. It was a matter of getting the call. My eyes lit up when they sent the play in. I didn't want to give it away.