Eye Quotes - Page 9

• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  H. L. Mencken

  Girl, Memories, Kindness

  Smart Set, Dec. 1921

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• Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Goal, Mind, Anticipation

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• It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Magazines, Dinner

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, Greed

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library

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• My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

  Chief Joseph

  Fathers Day, Father, People

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• The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Cheerful, Different

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Dark, Blue, Black

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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• What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Family, Heart, Whole

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Differences

  "Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge". Book by Mark Batterson, December 18, 2012.

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Blind, Fortune, Blindness

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.36

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Jesus Christ

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Hands, Painting

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Film Directing, Cameras

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Cameras

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Country, Greatness, Self

  "Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 13, July 22, 2004 to September 14, 2004". Book published by Government Printing Office, p. 18022, 2009.

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Creating, Pairs, Originality

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• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Cameras

  "Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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• I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

  Corbin Bleu

  Happiness, Smile, Beautiful

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• Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Hands, Long, Arms

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• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

  Bret Harte

  Patience, Tears, Dry

  Bret Harte (1872). “Prose and Poetry”, p.305

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• No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

  John Leeson

  Actors, Height, Fantastic

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