“It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.” GivingHappensEyeEasyForgetKnownHappenedMovementNotesPrizeCliffsRiotMississippiAtrocitiesTouchstonesEye On The PrizeJackson Mississippi Author:Tate Taylor
“When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.” WorldChildrenRealProblemHappensEyeWaitingNiceHer EyesReal ProblemsGloss Author:Eddie Vedder
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldLooksBigsHappensEyeTogetherRememberFacesFocusFansGuitarLipsLocksEmbarrassingHumiliatingPlaying Guitar Author:Lucas Till
“The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.” PeopleTryingLooksLongHappensEyeCultureHeavenRoundsSwingsSooner Or LaterAfter Death Author:N. T. Wright
“Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.” HappensEyeGuyChristStageWorshipGloryFilledGuitar Author:Matt Papa
“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.” MenNeedsHeartTwoEnoughHappensWould BeEyeFeltWaterArmsSafeSummerBirdBreathsEmbraceExpectedEndlessGrassNecksLazySunlightHer EyesInsectsFragranceEnough TimeBuzzTwo Hearts Author:Maggie Osborne
“The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.” LooksDoeArtLightSeemsHappensEyeOrderRoomsWonderfulAchieveMiraclePhotographScreensLikesIntenseAdmireSilverAutumnPrintDisplaySlidesBorrowedBrightnessAdaptabilityLureBulbsProjectors Author:Ernst Gombrich
“We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.” CharacterHappensEyeJudgingLuckyAppearanceReputationSicknessMisfortunesVisitingPersonal Appearance Author:William Hazlitt
“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.” SometimesHappensEyeForgetEgoStrangerWho I Am Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.” YearsRealHappensEyeAmericaBornKnownViolenceRiskStrangeDiedTwentiesThings HappenLatinCowardLatin America Author:Roberto Bolano
“There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!” IfsWantHappensEyeOne ThingWeekIllThings Happen Author:Eva Braun
“All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.” PeopleMindDoeBodyHappensEyeTogetherHeavenStarsNaturalViewsObjectsAdmireFixedExposedImmenseMultitudes Author:Saint Basil
“We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.” IfsMindMayMadeHelpingMightHappensEyeDecisionSituationMissingExpectationsFunctionDisappointmentValuableFinding YourselfUnhappinessFulfilled Book:Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
“once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.” HumansMayFactsHelpingHappensEyePeaceRaceVisionRegretCaughtTinyHuman RaceMinoritiesAnglePacifism Book:It Occurred to Me Source: It Occurred to Me
“Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.” PeopleHappensEyeHurtReadyDisappointmentUnexpected Author:Brian Grazer