Best first-time & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.”

Firsts Facts Eye Science Order Fall Lines Saws Fit First Time Garden Standing Chemistry Transformed Schemes Recipes Jungle Dutch Boyhood Haphazard Periodic Table Medley

Book:The Search

Source: The Search

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars. For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe. I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.”

Giving Firsts Looks Kind Eye Heard First Time Meetings Fearful Arrivals Avid New Arrivals

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality”

Years Firsts Reality Eye Heard First Time Performances Impression Intimate Concerts Canvas Crude Unfinished Webern

Author:Anton Webern

“Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.”

Firsts Eye Turns Heaven Glory First Time

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.”

Firsts Humans Eye Strong Understanding Views Painting Drama Scene First Time Reactions Behave Evoke Human Eyes

Author:Mike Svob

“There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.”

Firsts Kind Littles Feelings Eye Running Faces Actors Lines Materials First Time Imperfection

Author:Clint Eastwood

“It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.”

Feels Firsts Eye First Time Opening Eye Opening

Author:Diane Drake

“Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Eye Saws Alive Married First Time Died I Realized Different Ways His Eyes Stations Yellow Gave Up Wagons Volvo

Author:Joan Didion

“Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.”

Ifs World Should Firsts Looks Children Eye First Time Innocent Discovering Naive Eyes Of A Child Discovering Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.”

Firsts Children Eye Seeing First Time Appreciate Priorities Innocent Small Things Having Children Innocent Eyes

Author:Nick Cannon

“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.”

Feels Firsts Made Eye Past Young Night Names Saws Rocks Needed First Time Hearing Rock N Roll Flash Rock And Roll Springsteen Hearing Music

Author:Jon Landau

“From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.”

Firsts Heart Eye Girl My Heart First Time Follow Through

Author:Bob Marley

“It is just a very freaky experience when you go to the movie theater and you see it for the first time. In close-up you see those eyes. There are little touches here and there that I recognize as myself. The process is fun.”

Firsts Littles Eye Fun Process First Time Theater Here And There Movie Theater Freaky

Author:Antonio Banderas

“The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray that emotion, and that didn't matter. I realized you have to bring that emotion into the way you sound, and all those different layers have to be in your voice instead of the way you are wrinkling your eyebrows or whatever. I had to learn how to do that.”

Way Trying Firsts Different Matter Use Eye Faces Sound Voice Emotion First Time I Realized Layers Eyebrows Voice Over

Author:Elle Fanning

“The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.”

Way Writing Firsts Children Book Eye First Time Great Book Eyes Of A Child

Author:Arnold Bennett

“When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.”

Firsts Home Eye Process Directors First Time Performances Nervous Attachment Lots Of Money Breakdown Financiers Nervous Breakdown Great Performance Trusting You

Author:John Krokidas

“But the first time I had to stand up and sing with them was when we did the pre-record for the movie and it was that moment where I sort of said to myself: "S**t, now I actually have to do this and I have to stand up and do my stars in your eyes moment!" Wake Up and Make Love With Me was the first song and I thought: "Here we are with Chaz and all the boys..."”

Firsts Said Moments Eye Song Stars Boys Records First Time Wake Up That Moment Making Love

Author:Andy Serkis

“The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the "Sam" character. And it brought tears to my eyes, because you're working so hard to make something happen and you're just in there, and you're delirious with sleep deprivation. To see it work, to see his reaction, made it all worthwhile.”

“The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.”

Firsts Long Ends Home Eye Felt Class Sun Meditation Long Time Singing Yoga First Time Moved Cried

Author:Zoe McLellan

“An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma & Louise]. We were going to meet, just Ridley [Scott] and Susan and I, to go through the script and see if we had any thoughts or ideas. I was reading the script, and in the most girly way possible, meaning that if it was a line that could change or something different I'd like to see, I would think about each one and say, "Well, this one can wait till the set because I don't want to bring up too many things."”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Firsts Wells Ideas Different Moments Eye Reading Waiting Lines Mets First Time Scripts Opening Shooting Defining Girly Eye Opening Defining Moments

Author:Geena Davis

“I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be transported and how your imagination can take you to a whole other place.”

Thinking Want Firsts Book Real Whole Eye Imagination Forget Lord Reader First Time Rings Opening Eye Opening Real Eyes

Author:Sharon Cameron

“I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.”

Knows Firsts Done Shows Eye Film First Time Neurosis

Author:Ti West

“You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And then I could talk to that white guy about the first time he lost someone close to his heart, and I could tell him about the first time I lost someone close to my heart, and I can guarantee you that at least 70 percent of the experienced feelings will be similar. We are human beings.”

Men Heart Different Feelings Eye Guy My Heart First Time Blue Eyes

Author:Amma Asante

“I recommend for people, if this is the first time they're going to see an eclipse, don't get bogged down in trying to take pictures of it, because you'll spend much too much time fiddling around with cameras. Unless you've got the strength to just take a quick snapshot and let it go at that and not mess with the camera. Try to drink it in with your eyes and enjoy it.”

People Trying Eye Enjoy Drink First Time Mess Let It Go Eclipse

Author:Fred Espenak

“Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.”

Eye First Time Mature

Author:Laurence Graff

“I don't believe that the economy has changed people's thinking politically in Alberta. However, obviously we elected a brand new government for the first time, some people say, in 44 years. It's actually the first time in over 70 years, because the previous government, prior to the PCs, was really just PCs with a different name. And I think what that did, it doesn't suddenly mean that Tom Mulcair is going to win a whack of seats here in Alberta, but I think it did open Albertans' eyes to the fact that, you know, something different is possible and we can do something different.”

People Thinking Believe Mean Different Eye Winning Economy Changed First Time

Author:Naheed Nenshi

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”

“Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.”

Firsts Eye Three Dark Feet Six Mouths First Time Empty Shoulders Touched Broads Inches Arrogant Dark Eyes

Book:Tender Triumph

Source: Tender Triumph

“The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke. Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. And it did, too.”

Firsts Heart Two Eye Wanted Middle First Time Clouds Hey Smoke Staring Scare Yellow Hung Pauses Ceilings Columns

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”

Knows World Firsts Heart Persons Feelings Eye Moving Fall Force My Heart First Time Connected Invisible Floating Drifting Flipped Swirls Physical Force Drifting Away

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?" "Blow me Shane." "Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table." "Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it." Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it." "You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here.”

Should Firsts Wells Kind Mean Said Eye Girl Language Sound Party Boys Break Heard First Time Tables Blow Planning Vampire Bites Minors Her Eyes Seriousness Claire Shane Monica Bite Me

Author:Rachel Caine

“When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.”

Way Firsts Looks Eye Faces Saws First Time Sight Breaths Mirrors Caught Corruption Stuck Lust Innocent Muscles Necks Pale Look At Me Wire Confined Necklaces

Book:The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

Source: The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

“After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.”

Source: Where the Red Fern Grows

“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts May Art Reason Might Eye Mouths First Time Related Museums Elderly Profane Profanity Vernacular

Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.”

Knows Should Firsts Heart Doe Said Soul Eye Together My Heart First Time My Soul Brown Touched Chocolate Trustworthy Wendy Herpes

Author:Caprice Crane

“He lifted the arm covering his eyes and turned his head to glare at her. "I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you." "What do you mean, trouble?" She sat up, glaring back at him. "I am not trouble! I'm a very nice person except when I have to deal with jerks!" "You're the worst kind of trouble," he snapped. "You're marrying trouble."”

Firsts Kind Mean Persons Eye Deals Saws Nice Trouble Worst Arms First Time Sat His Eyes Covering Very Nice Jerk Marrying Glare Nice Person First Time I Saw You

Author:Linda Howard

“I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.”

Thinking Men Want Firsts Believe Two Eye Running Fun I Believe First Time I Believe In Stomach Flirting Cocktails Fling Shiver Had Fun I Had Fun

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.”

Giving Firsts Wells Heart Hard Enough Eye Turns Fall Girl Pieces Months First Time Falling In Love Fallen Cracks Ceramics

Book:The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid

“For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.”

Firsts Hands Eye Hurt Silence Worry Sun Forever Tears First Time Storm Sunset Gray Daring Tenderness Wounded Her Eyes Stunned Archangel Sun Kissed

Book:Archangel's Consort

Source: Archangel's Consort

“Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?”

Firsts Eye Wanted Sea First Time Infinite Wide Horizon Thought Of The Day

Book:Little Herr Friedemann

Source: Little Herr Friedemann

“Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.”

Thinking Men Firsts Looks Said Eye Faces Moving Found Names Sound Tears Mines Months First Time Drawing Streams His Eyes Dry Cheeks Cried Look At Me Wrinkles Bald Man Drawing Pictures

Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.”

“You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.”

Firsts Looks Heart Body Bigs Eye Faces Saws Mines First Time Wings Fingers Wide Your Body Bars Mysterious Mask Your Face Butterfly Look At Me Like A Butterfly Butterfly Wings

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Helping Eye Differences First Time Making A Difference God Help God Help Us

Book:The Birth of Venus: A Novel

Source: The Birth of Venus: A Novel

“The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Eye Pain Felt Loses Saws Dangerous First Time Complicated League Shed Rats Shocked Glowing

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He'll call to say goodnight or just cause he's missing you. He'll look in your eyes and tell you, you're the most beautiful girl in the world, and for the first times in your life, you'll believe it.”

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