Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Johansen

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

Irvin S. Cobb

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

Igor Stravinsky

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

Idris Elba

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

Hunter Tylo

We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

Isaac Marion

But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Francis Quarles

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

Ian Holm

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Ian Holloway

Roy Keane's like a shark. He has those eyes. You don't know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you.

Giordano Bruno

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

J. M. Coetzee

My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

J. K. Rowling

I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

J. K. Rowling

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.

Greg Iles

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Grace Paley

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

Grant Morrison

He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.

I can see it in his eyes. He's itching to go out there, but they just won't let him.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

Carl Jung

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.

Willie Nelson

We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are.

Christy Romano

I have good eyes, so I usually play them up so they stand out. I do a liner around the top of my eye and half way into the bottom.

I don't know that we're seeing eye to eye on value. I think we're close.

He has a good eye for the player that has a lot of upside. I think UOP is kind of going to be in the same situation as Hawaii in that we're not able to get the high school All-American player. I think he'll be able to find players he can train who will be way better when they leave than they are when they get there.

John Mortimer

He had his eyes open. We knew he was alive. He knew I was there.

He makes a huge difference. He has experience. When he comes out and plays hard, you see big hits and collisions. He accelerates the play of the offense. They do things they're not ready to do. They start playing with one eye on him and one eye on the play.

Robert Creeley

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Robbie Coltraine

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Rob Halford

I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

Richard Petty

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

Richard Perle

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.