Eyeballs Quotes - Page 2

• That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

  Michel Gondry

  Squares, Phones, Light

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's My New Policy - Self-censorship'" By Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  Jim Drain

  Thinking, Color, Would Be

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• Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Brain, Mind

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• What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Jars, Pale

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• Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Country, Air, Long Ago

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• What's missing is the eyeballs
  in each of us, but it doesn't matter
  because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

  Anne Sexton

  Money, Missing, Bucks

  Anne Sexton, “'Daddy' Warbucks”

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• I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Musical, Notes

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• I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the eye and say 'Here I am,' and go and do your thing. As soon as they know you're confident, they're confident. As long as you adjust to them you're not in trouble. You should eyeball them, find out what they want, and give it to them. They didn't pay to come out and look at the tapestries.

  Les Paul

  Eye, Thinking, Here I Am

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• I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.

  Natasha Friend

  Sleep, Ideas, Hot

  Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

  Thulasiraj Ravilla

  Thinking, Quality, Variation

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• One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Vampire, Rabbits, Attention

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.206, Penguin

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• What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.

  Libba Bray

  Talking, Class, Humanity

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• Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Balance, Influence, Easy

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• The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

  Matt Taibbi

  Drama, Race, White

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• He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Giving, Helping, Pancreas

  A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

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• When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Statistics, Rely

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• But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.

  Sara Gruen

  Kids, College, Here I Am

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Running, Hurt, Night

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• On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Wind, Alive

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Memories, Fall, Blue

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.38, Penguin

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• The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Holy Places, Pages

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• I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Sarcastic, Stupid, Sarcasm

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead and Unfinished: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Odds, Typewriters

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• The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

  Herman Melville

  Skulls, Light, Brain

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.346, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Wish, Age, Groups

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.22, Penguin

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