Her Eyes Quotes - Page 18

• She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Eye, Men

  Song: She Sings Songs Without Words, 1974

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• O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
  And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Tongue

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

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• But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

  Anthony Trollope

  Eye, Light, House

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.36, 谷月社

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• When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

  Robert Burns

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her. The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

  Katherine Dunn

  Mother, Healing, Eye

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• The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

  Rich Sommer

  Eye, Games, Wife

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• I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.'
  It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes
  ...I coulda died.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rap, Eye, Thinking

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• There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs.

  Robert Osborne

  Eye, Olivia, Looks

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• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

  Epictetus

  Eye, Soul, Crow

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mean, Eye, Light

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1259, Dell

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• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Stars, Twilight

  1804 'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1-4 (published 1807).

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• Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Women, Eye, Feet

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• Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who is preventing? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess - and surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Powerful

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• Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Eye, Thinking

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• She wore blue velvet
  Bluer than velvet was the night
  Softer than satin was the light
  From the stars
  She wore blue velvet
  Bluer than velvet were her eyes
  Warmer than May her tender sighs

  Bernie Wayne

  Song, Stars, Eye

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• We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Wise, Eye, Men

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”

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• Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

  Dianne Reeves

  Wise, Grandma, Eye

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• Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Daughter, Mother, Eye

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• Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Writing, Gay

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• No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better.” Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks. “I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.” She did. “I choose you over everyone.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Glasses, Snow

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.668, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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• A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.

  Trevor Hall

  Eye, Heart, Swim

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