I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
In my mind’s eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
No, I don’t regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
I’ll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, ‘No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don’t work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.’ I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
I always feel with a vintage shop they’ve picked the best bits to show you whereas with charity shops you can find a real gem. My mum is amazing at it, she has hawk eyes, so I go with her and follow her lead!
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I’m amazing with gravy. That’s my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I’m very proud of my gravy.
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that’s because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can’t take your eyes off of because everything they are doing – even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye – it’s just interesting.
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.
Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
All of world’s eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That’s something that can discern the peace and love.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I’ll just bawl my eyes out.
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Even though I’m an actor, I’ve gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can’t take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they’re good or not, it doesn’t matter.
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
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.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
I don’t have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
I can honestly say – not proudly, but honestly – before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother’s eyes.
It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
It’s very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I’ll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, ‘What would Said say about that,’ and then it gets complicated.
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one’s meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I’d play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes – forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups – is that I’m still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.
I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
You can almost read any emotion through someone’s eyes.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
