Best Squinting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“J!m squinted his first hate of the day.”

Source: Go, Mutants!

“The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.”

Loses Wonder Vision Divine Creatures Goodness Enlightenment Absolutes Attributes Cynical Worldview Absolute Truth Squinting

Author:Peter Kreeft

“By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.”

People Squinting

Author:Ovid

“The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.”

Men Eye Feet Ugliness Squinting

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.”

“The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.”

Ifs Knows World Should I Can Helping Views Painting Walking Critics Hardest Saving Hardest Thing Upside Down Walking Away Dumped Squinting

Author:Karla Kuskin

“Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.”

Persons Seems Alive Scene Ultimate Grateful Concentration Memorizing Squinting

Book:The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Source: The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

“What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.”

Looks Said Two Eye Black Painting Supposed To Be Pointing Diaries Homework Grinning Black Eyes Dobby Squinting

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”

“Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence." "I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake." "That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.”

Use White Grace Mercy Sentences Boards Spells Cake Aunt Tiles Squinting

Author:Margaret Stohl

“We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.”

Wells Has Beens Eye Strong Given Born Clear Weak Squinting

Book:JULIAN

Source: JULIAN

“I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of my head. His name burst through all the walls I'd built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn't matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you.”

Ifs Matter Eye Dies Names Sound Love You Wall Spring Built Furious Squinting

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.”

Knows Heart Moments Bigs Film Wish Letters Crew Day To Day Love Letter Day Life Day To Day Life Big Heart Squinting Film Crew

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. As Harry, Ron, and Hermione drew closer, the barman drew his cloak more tightly around his neck and walked away, leaving the shorter man to fumble with something in his arms. They were barely feet from him when Harry realized who the man was. “Mundungus!”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.”

“The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.”

May Doe Said Government Beautiful Evil President Lord Opinion Kings Constitution Raises Checks Awful Features Breasts Conventions Monarchy Indignation Very True Deformity Squinting

Author:Patrick Henry

“There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?”

World Guy Sun One Thing Blood This World Golf Seven Thirty Racing Golfers Golfing Golf Life Playing Golf Squinting

Author:Peter Andrews

“Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.”

“Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.”

Wonder Lord Morning Late Bird Hot July Noisy Glare Squinting

Book:For A Few Demons More

Source: For A Few Demons More