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“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

“I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.”

Men Eye America Lines Boys Drawing Dust Smoke Mist Membranes Drawing The Line

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.”

Facts Eye Artist Lines Wealth Secret Color Rhythm Tension Contrast Continuity Fusion

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“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

“In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.”

Eye Used President Lines Weapons Barack Chemicals President Obama Don't Trust Assad Chemical Weapons

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.”

Eye Lines Features Concentration

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

Eye Lines Objects Perspective Proportion Centre Outlines Plasticity

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.”

I Can Eye Nature Lines Mass Details Backgrounds Planes Relief Obscure Luminous

Author:Francisco Goya

“The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.”

Way Different Eye Lines Grace Variety Different Ways Continuity

Book:Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored

Source: Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored

“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.”

Eye Stars Lines Sky Stupid Cheesy

Author:Jamelia

“Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.”

Eye Able Jobs Faces Actors Lines Generations Standing Woods Tricky Elijah Concealing Redundant

Author:Jay Carr

“All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that does cartwheels in yogurt commercials. I wanna be the cartoon character in that antidepressant ad who has, like, little lines under her eyes, and the divot in the middle of the pill is the pill’s mouth... have you seen this ad? It’s very good. It’s for Abilify, which is not a word.”

People Knows Needs Littles Doe Character Eye Fun Lines Middle Mouths Very Good Silly Ads Her Eyes Cartoon Pills Yogurt Antidepressants Cartoon Character Cartwheels

Author:Julie Klausner

“Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.”

Eye Lines Levels Perspective Drawing Horizon Vanishing Vanishing Point

Author:Robert A. Lovett

“The enemy advances and you tremble. They've better numbers, you say. Better weapons. Better training. But I do not fear, and neither should you. For what they have in material, they lack in conviction and care. But not us. We have discipline. We have order. And most importantly, we have passion. We believe! So maintain vigilance. Conserve your ammo. Ensure a proper line of sight. And above all else, men, do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Men Should Believe Eye Care Order Passion Lines Numbers Enemy Fire Materials Discipline Weapons Training Sight Conviction Vigilance Do Not Fear Ammo

Author:Israel Putnam

“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.”

Feels Should Children Littles Eye Voice Lines Boys Four Wonderful Tough Mark Misery His Eyes Spokes Whiskey Little Boys Whisky Scotch Whiskey

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”

Thinking Persons Done Bigs Light Eye Actors Can Do Lines Studios Bored Dull Memorizing

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.”

Should Trying Hands Eye Lines Ink Permanence Coordination Sketching

Author:Paul Laseau

“Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?”

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Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.”

Firsts Humans Persons I Can Stories Eye Mother Reading Voice Lines My Own Sentences Inward

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.”

Ifs Humans Eye Lines Expression Depends Painter Variation Countenance

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”

Mean Eye Names Lines Fronts Objects Perspective Distance Starting Edges Surface Rational Consideration Demonstration Pyramids Transmit

Book:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

“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

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.”

Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

“Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.”

“Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.”

Men Needs Giving Wells Ideas Eye Beautiful Form Sound Lines Heard Color Ears Sight Details Contrary Senses Perceive Tone His Eyes Humankind Brutes Arrested Sight And Sound

Author:John Henry Newman

“The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes”

People Firsts Made Eye Lines Saws Fields Managers Giants September Brooklyn Jackie Dodgers

Author:Willie Mays

“Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.”

Heart Littles Eye Lines White Five Conditions Subjects Hair Months Twenties Punishment Witness Suspense Fixed Sufficient Brown Grey Convicts Bleach Brown Hair

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each other, accidental, meaningless, a jumble, just a chance phenomenon. If you see the truth, everything falls into line, everything falls together in a harmony, everything starts having significance.”

Ifs Life Needs Whole Facts Eye Truth Together Life Is Fall Lines Chance Harmony Whole Life Dull Significance Phenomenon Meaningless Truth Of Life

Author:Rajneesh

“Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of fathers known; Fine his nose, his nostrils thin, But blown abroad by the pride within; His mane is like a river flowing, And his eyes like embers glowing In the darkness of the night, And his pace as swift as light.”

Light Eye Night Father Strong Black Lines Known Darkness Fire Pride Fine Rivers Horse Bones Noble Noses His Eyes Pace Glowing Embers Dainty

Author:Bryan Procter

“Blue liner at the lash line is a great way to brighten the eyes. I also love using a flesh-toned eye pencil on the water line to neutralize any redness. Tipping the lashes with navy mascara is another great way to make the whites appear whiter.”

Way Eye Water Lines Blue Flesh Pencils Navy Lashes Tipping Mascara

Author:Tim Quinn

“In the scenes I try to be a giver as much as possible, giving the other actor something to work with. When not in the scenes I will stand in for eye lines to help the other actor with delivery and hopefully performance.”

Giving Trying Helping Eye Actors Lines Scene Performances Hopefully Giver Delivery

Author:James Preston Rogers

“I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.”

Years Wells Hands Eye Lines Too Much Smoke Pens Associates Ashtrays

Author:Tom Stoppard

“The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.”

Ifs Said Two Humor Eye Funny Courses Lines Picks Phones Damn Bless Psychics God Bless Two Days God Bless You

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.”

“As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.”

Way Persons Doe Hands Eye Actors Lines Walks Rooms Half Steps Roles Cutting Scene Mouths

Author:Stanley Tucci

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