Best Eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when everything is enhanced, especially my eyes - I like a smoky eye. In real life, I like myself best in tinted moisturiser, lip balm and mascara.”

Looks Different Real Eye Cameras Lips Real Life Mascara

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.”

Thinking Way Eye Literature Names Particular Poet Pages Boring Dry Speakers

Author:Norman MacCaig

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Made Eye Used Wonder Shots Red Flying Used To Be Planes Therapy Pauses Linked Flyers Fear Of Flying Red Eye

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”

Want Mean Eye Young Causes Easy Boys Feet Stores Toys Bruises Tantrums

Author:Jodie Foster

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

Eye America Life Is Turns Difficult Blind Silent Customers Corporate Passive Spirals Corporate America Blind Eyes Downward Spiral

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.”

Giving Eye Huge Giving Up

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.”

Giving Eye Jobs Five Huge Giving Up Tough Nine Good Money

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”

Art Play Eye Jobs Opportunity Space Roles Feet Streets Safety Neighborhood Traffic Improving New Job Vacant Public Safety

Author:Gavin Newsom

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.”

Eye Design Proportion

Author:Bruce Oldfield

“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”

Men Firsts Eye Remember Poverty Hero Feminist Teenager Discovering

Author:Frances O'Grady

“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.”

Firsts Eye Memories Grief Dog Tears Moon Notes Wave Sunlight Sleepers Jingles Dog Food Saboteurs

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.”

Knows Doe Eye Heaven Grief Hell Cold Snow Release Flames Streams Melting Liquid Death Grief Melting Snow

Author:Kiersten White

“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.”

World Way Love Believe Reality Eye Fall Steps Destiny Fate Love You Hundred Lifetime Falling In Love Wide Versions Every Step Fate And Destiny Eyes Wide Open

Author:Kiersten White

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“I rolled my eyes in aggravation and glared at the ceiling, hating what I had to confess. Lend knew how much it affected me, taking souls, and I always felt guilty and dirty, like he was judging me even though he tried not to. The faerie came after me when Reth was down and I sucked out some of her soul.Good.I-Good?Yes. Good.I shuddered. You don't have the creepy, ice thing in you. It's not good.You here, safe and alive? Good.I smiled sadly and knocked on the wall three times. I-knock-love-knock-you-knock.He knocked three times back.”

Soul Eye Hate Three Felt Alive Judging Wall Safe Down And Guilty Ice Dirty Affected Three Times Ceilings Creepy Aggravation Faerie Judge Me

Author:Kiersten White

“If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.”

Ifs Eye Work Cry Profound

Author:Cat Stevens

“If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.”

Ifs Want Eye Insanity Grotesque Eccentricity

Author:Michael Jackson

“Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?”

Ifs Knows Mind Ends Eye Night Tomorrow Insanity End Times Purple Haze You Got Me Purple Haze

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Don't it make my brown eyes blue?”

Eye Blue Brown Misinterpretation Brown Eyes

Author:Crystal Gayle

“Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.”

Heart Soul Hard God Eye Heaven Voice Water Rocks Fields Tears Divine Blessing Mountain Flow Clouds Command My Soul Thee Desert Dry Abundance Divides Showers Thunder Voice Of God

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“By choosing better feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you don't want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your Broader Perspective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with, and therefore in the process of attracting, only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.”

“Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!”

Men Shows Eye Earth Steps Fields Spots His Eyes Warning Echoes Grove

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

Knows Wells Eye Jobs Chance Audience Exciting Theatre One Chance

Author:Christine Lahti

“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.”

Men Littles Has Beens Said Facts Eye Social Achievement Blind Relate Aspiration Great Men

Author:James Loeb

“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”

People Men Looks Stills Eye Powerful Behinds Violence Lucky Accounts His Eyes Smooth Elegant Very Powerful Powerful Man Older Man

Author:Vincent Piazza

“I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.”

Years Shows Reality Eye Law Order Cases Saws Cold Dad Seven Bunch Legacy Episodes Seven Years Handful Baggage Being A Dad Cold Case

Author:Danny Pino

“I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.”

Thinking Knows World Country Eye Able Grows Growing Up

Author:Michael Phelps

“When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Enough Eye Order Stupid Husband Married My Husband Being Married Waiter Martini

Author:Megan Fox

“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”

World Writing Two Character Eye Together Seeing Honesty Sympathy Seeing The World

Author:Tom Perrotta

“It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.”

Eye Stuff Stupid Needed Public Eye

Author:Zara Phillips

“The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!”

People Want Persons Has Beens Eye Courses Space Views Taken Sick Exciting Cameras Tired Photograph Hearing Mechanism Astronaut

Author:Burt Rutan

“I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!”

I Can Eye Bed Grateful Everyday Grateful To God

Author:Jerry Reed

“The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.”

Want Feelings Eye Artist Passion Stars Fire Radio Sincere Steel

Author:L.A. Reid

“I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.”

Knows Eye Behinds Know How Keys Personality Scene Lows Performers Behind The Scenes Public Eye Discreet Low Key

Author:Leon Redbone

“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”

Giving Self Hard Eye Faces Quality Hair Shapes Clothes Size Oneself Treasure Length Your Face

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.”

Giving Littles Dream Eye Mother Certain Evil Blood Crosses Always Believe Grandma Gypsy Evil Eye

Author:Sam Raimi

“Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.”

Eye Universe Pay Growing Masters Income Tales Inequality Shops Executives Gaps Laborers Income Inequality Popping Financiers Pay Gap

Author:Steven Rattner

“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”

Looks Eye Expression Bird Staring Tilt

Author:Ted Rall

“You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.”

People Eye Middle Conversation Come Up Meals Public Eye

Author:Wayne Rogers

“I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.”

Eye Jobs Girl Enjoy Normal Public Eye

Author:Jessica Szohr

“Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.”

Character Eye Hate Viewers

Author:John Slattery

“A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.”

Eye Night Nice Hair Easier

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.”

Ifs Looks Eye Dancing

Author:Ben Stiller

“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”

Long Ends Eye Causes Break Effects Holiness Breaking Down Whiteness

Author:Charles Simeon

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