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“I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.”

Ends Hands Eye Left Nerves Medicare Glaucoma

Author:Gary McCord

“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.”

Sometimes Eye Moving Belief Left Grows Watches Groups Position Objects Approach Photographer Relax Finality

Author:Aaron Siskind

“I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.”

Want I Can Eye Left Views Down And What You Want Wander Looking Back

Book:Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?”

Done Eye Past Fall Left Sleep Ought One Day Undone Transactions Thrice Rectitude

Author:Pythagoras

“I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.”

Knows Stills Eye Able Left Race Walking Legs Someday Pairs Hiking Trekking Vanishing Pedestrians Nimble

Author:Will Rogers

“The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.”

Men Humans Mean Doe Eye Earth Faces Left Blue Sensations Human Eyes

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.”

Men World Littles Doe Real Eye Left Sides Party Cases Crime Duty Regard Hated Consistency Inconsistency

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“You don't let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry. He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.”

Ifs Looks Stories Hands Might Eye Guy Turns Left Steps Feet Messages Crosses Balls Sorry Coffee Controlled Chests Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Thierry Henry

“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.”

Way May Littles Eye Running Left Language Strange Circles Symbols Shakes Sigh Up And Down Absent Stalking Gowns Rabbi Absent Minded

Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.”

Source: CHILDREN’S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: 11 Novels & 120+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables & Poems for Children (Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Series & The Arabian Nights): New Chronicles of Rebecca, A Summer in a Cañon, Polly Oliver's Problem, The Birds' Christmas Carol, The Romance of a Christmas Card, Timothy's Quest, The Fairy Ring, Golden Numbers and many more

“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.”

Feels Eye Left Tvs Window Good Things Incredibles Forgotten Painful Rage Granted Occasions Bad Things Milk Grain Accustomed Bathroom Sock

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Mind Art Feelings Hands Eye Moving Form Father Left Memories Seeing Car Shapes West Defined Hills Landscape Sensations Touching Riding Sculpture Hollow Texture Thrust Sculptors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.”

People Should War Eye Left Peace Weeping

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be yourself. That's what I love about them. Left Eye in particular helped me to stay on top of my A game. She's one of the best female MCs that I've heard.”

Knows I Can Eye Games Left Heard Particular Musician Female Being Yourself Barriers Left Eye Best Female

Author:Lil' Mama

“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”

Thinking Humans Seems Eye Age Asks Lost Left Human Beings Animal Eternal Slavery Tragic Reminders

Author:Edith Wharton

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.”

Eye Left Mines Arms

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.”

People Giving Feels Kind Littles Character Eye Action Left Audience Pieces Fate Personality Creatures Tasks Mere Insight Accidents Characteristics Latter Logical Coincidence

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations

“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”

Looks Eye Song Next Left Hell Dancing Silent Saint Stranger Bones Ecstasy Shade Receiving Bent Handsome Elevators Jelly Dance Floor

Book:The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

Source: The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel

“I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.”

Ifs World Firsts Looks Said Eye Artist Suffering Left Sound Realizing Music Fans Majors Consequence Down And Medical Performing Vacation Emergencies Touring Bloggers Buckles

Author:Iggy Azalea

“My sister Wendy has a husband and two children, and they have a family photo on top of the VCR, where they're all looking slightly to the left. As though something is going on over there! I guess something happened over to the left that made everybody happy! Except my sister is cross-eyed, so she can't quite pull it off. One eye is right-on.”

Children Made Two Humor Eye Funny Left Happened Husband Crosses My Sister Wendy Vcr Family Photo

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When you sleep your eyes move left and right and physical movement takes trauma and moves it from your frontal lobe to the back of your brain or to another part of the brain where you can store it that memory but when you think about those things that happened, you don't associate the feeling that normally comes with it. So the problem is if you have something traumatic happen and you are not getting a good amount of rest, it will stay in your frontal lobe.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Problem Happens Eye Moving Left Memories Sleep Brain Happened Movement Amount Trauma Stores Associates Left And Right

Author:Matty Mullins