Cold Eyed Quotes

#1. A tall, dark, cold eyed, warm lipped, firm chinned, young man of thirty

C.N. Williamson

#2. You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

David Harewood

#3. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#4. No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

James Otis

#5. But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

Muhammad Asad

#6. It's not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams.

Beth Revis

#7. I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

Mark Messier

#8. A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#10. Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

Louis Nizer

#11. She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#12. Well, " said her daddy, "your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking." And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.

Betty MacDonald

#13. The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

Walter Bagehot

#14. I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

Richard Holbrooke

#15. In the end he said, I am Mercier, alone, ill, in the cold, the wet, old, half mad, no way on, no way back. He eyed briefly, with nostalgia, the ghastly sky, the hideous earth. At your age, he said. Another act. Immaterial

Samuel Beckett

#16. A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.

G. Campbell Morgan

#17. The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

Andrea Bocelli

#18. People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Marina Abramovic