Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick the Great

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Jon Heder

I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say.

Jon Landau

I saw my rock ‘n’ roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

Jon Daniels

Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.

Jon Foreman

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

Jojo Moyes

I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.

Jojo Moyes

I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?

Johnny Cash

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

John Cleese

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

John Brown

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

John Brunner

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

M. Scott Peck

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing…

Lupe Fiasco

They say the streets is a demon in a dress, Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath

John Charles Polanyi

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

You know, ... sometimes it's good that you don't have all those eyes on you.

Sean Casey

You could see the sadness in their eyes,

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

You've got to keep an eye on him all the time. You can't give him any room and you've got to be in his face. You've got to know where he's at all the time.

Larry Coker

You've got to have talent. We have talent. The thing I like about it is I like the attitude. These guys are hungry. They're a smart group of kids and I really just see kind of an eye of the tiger.

Harry Caray

You've got all these brilliant, talented people, and the first thing they say afterward is, 'God, am I glad that's over!' All of a sudden, 40,000 pairs of eyes turn and they're looking at you. All of them say it's the most incredible rush they've ever had professionally.

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

William Wordsworth

And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.

Lamont Dozier

All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world,

All you have to do is look into somebody's eyes and you see their soul. And you see their history.

All eyes are on the hurricane. It's keeping oil high and pressuring the market.

Eric Kripke

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Eric Hoffer

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Eric Hoffer

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.

Eric Hoffer

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.