Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Porter

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

Esther Williams

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

Ernest Gaines

We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.

Ernest Gaines

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Erin Andrews

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

Erin Morgenstern

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

Cassandra Clare

Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

Gary Busey

Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.

Gao Xingjian

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

Gao Xingjian

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.

Fritz Kreisler

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Fuzzy Zoeller

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

Fulton J. Sheen

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

Frederic Chopin

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

Frank Perdue

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

Frank O'Hara

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

Frank Miller

Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."

George Canning

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Carey

The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

George Chapman

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

Christopher Fry

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Dawson

Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

Christopher Eccleston

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

Christine Vachon

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, theres a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

Christina Aguilera

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Christina Aguilera

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

Christina Aguilera

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

Chris Pronger

When I got hit I went from having 37-year-old eyes to having 65-year-old eyes. That's why I've got the glasses on - so my eye isn't constantly trying to focus and giving me headaches. But they also help me see better: my right eye is blurry.

Chris Rock

You won’t be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.

Chris Gardner

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

Gilbert Gottfried

If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, dont laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if thats funny, then you laugh. If its not, you dont laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.

Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Hayden Panettiere

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy because it's true. As I've gotten older and grown into my body, I've started realizing that the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you.