Best eye & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“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

“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

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”

People Thinking Trying Eye

Author:Don Van Vliet

“I'm not a big fan of guitar face. You know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye and it's really humiliating. You know some people have that really embarrassing guitar face? I remember thinking about this when I was doing the DJing, because... you do have to focus, and that's what happens, it's your focus face. But you're in a movie, so you should probably lock it up.”

People Thinking Knows Should Looks Bigs Happens Eye Together Remember Faces Focus Fans Guitar Lips Locks Embarrassing Humiliating Playing Guitar

Author:Lucas Till

“Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!”

Thinking Looks Moments Eye Fog Lighthouse

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.”

Thinking Want Mind Eye Action Results Powerful Behavior Performers

Author:Charles Garfield

“In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.”

People Thinking World Feels Eye Age Fear Technology Information Goes On Amount Constant Storm Access Confusion Overwhelmed Baskets Overflow Eye Of The Storm

Book:Venus in Arms

Source: Venus in Arms

“I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.”

Thinking Way Years Eye Challenges Girlfriend Pipe My Girlfriend Sweaters Knitting

Author:Chris Messina

“I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.”

Thinking Way May Eye Advantage

Author:Robert Morse

“I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.”

Thinking World Eye Sides Becoming Needed Appreciate Phases Captains Coins Flip Chuck

Author:Ryan McPartlin

“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.”

People Thinking Looks Country Eye Certain Views Comedy Bird British Canada Look At Me Objectivity

Author:Eric McCormack

“I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.”

Thinking Sometimes Light Eye Actors Lost Views Bird Traits Hitting

Author:Allison Williams

“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Eye Nations Understanding Clear Building Be You Nation Building

Author:Anthony Zinni

“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source: Losing Julia

“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandora’s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.”

Thinking Way Should Real Eye Lasts Issues Saws Changed Promise Built Agendas Last Time Documentaries Orthodoxy Pandora Open Eyes

Author:Owen Gleiberman

“I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.”

Thinking World Want Play Eye Guy Sports Perfect Fans Hardest Places In The World Philadelphia Superstar Super Star

Author:Allen Iverson

“I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.”

Thinking Knows World Want Wells Eye School Models Around The World Plenty Watson Emma Public Eye Multitasking

Author:Karlie Kloss

“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Ideas Would Be Eye Imagine Wonderful Exciting Screens Projectors

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.”

Thinking Eye Beautiful Young Accepting Through The Eyes

Author:Marisa Berenson

“I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.”

Thinking Heart Eye Film Industry Wide Really Mean Open Heart Wide Eyes

Author:Caleb Landry Jones

“The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.”

People Thinking Looks Made I Can Eye Impression Pakistan

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.”

Thinking Eye Written Television Industry Public Eye

Author:Roone Arledge

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

People Thinking Men Wells Doe Eye Stage He Man Safe Loud Applause Discretion Relish Vehement

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie”

Thinking Children Eye Brain Genius Genies True Genius Eyes Of A Child

Author:Puzant Kevork Thomajan

“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.”

Thinking Looks Soul Eye Huge Hair Window Including Your Soul Wardrobe

Author:Jon Heder

“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.”

Thinking Eye Views Prison Companion Dungeons Rotting Haggard

Author:George Canning

“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.”

Thinking May Eye Three Principles All Things Bounds Inches Beetles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.”

People Thinking Men Eye Perspective Draws Get Away Unimportant Profile Viewpoints

Author:Georges Braque

“What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.”

Thinking Way Looks Eye Clothes Dresses Sells Hopefully Closets Accessories Swollen

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.”

Thinking Feels Hands Eye Ears Nerves Eyes Of Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.”

Thinking Bigs Eye Player Wonderful Fans Hawks

Author:Jim Courier

“Strain your brain more than your eye.”

Thinking Eye Brain Strain

Book:Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History

Source: Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History

“The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Compassion Kindness Tears He Man Creatures His Eyes Immense Filling Filling Up

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.”

Thinking World Eye Space Views Vision Sky Infinite Seclusion Vantage Point Infinite Space

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.”

Thinking Knows Looks Stills Eye Beautiful Blue Mary Blue Eyes Laura

Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”

Thinking Men Doe Sometimes Eye Force Taste Regard Notes Critics Destroyed Sickness Honey Inferiors Sour Diseased

Author:Saint Basil

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you?”

Thinking Giving Looks Sometimes God Eye

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.”

Thinking Eye Law Causes Natural Walks Wonder Circumstances Scientist Philosopher Perceive Operations Midst Accustomed Novelty Uninformed

Author:John Herschel

“I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.”

Thinking Believe Book Different Philosophy Character Eye Written Alphabet

Author:Galileo Galilei

“Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages...”

Thinking Eye Ought Prove Passages Biblical Testimony Demonstration

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Mean Eye Actors Ears

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

People Thinking Firsts May Has Beens Eye Together Past Names Son Decided Breaths Witness His Eyes Stamps Luther

Author:Bernhard Rust

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