My Eyes Are Wide Open Quotes

#1. I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

Douglas Adams

#2. She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.
My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire - no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.

Beth Revis

#3. The lamps in one street after another were lighted till it seemed to him that a pervading darkness, like some demon, was keeping its eyes wide open to watch every movement of its victim.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Progress should not bow to fear, but should proceed with eyes wide open.

Max More

#5. When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly

Dave Matthews

#6. Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller.

Miranda Kenneally

#7. The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open.

A. Mani

#8. Penelope screamed incoherently in Erik's tight embrace. Kaliope sat on her heels, rocking back and forth, silent. Her eyes were wide open, unblinking. She was silent

A.O. Peart

#9. Time - the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open.

Charles Simic

#10. Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

Richard Ashcroft

#11. My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Richard John Neuhaus

#12. Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

Ann Voskamp

#13. Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

David Liss

#14. And she looks at me with her eyes open wide and a face that says: Oh my God, I'm muckin' around in my sexy Jesus-boots, in my crazy dreamworld, and I've opened the door and let you in on my crazy dreamworld and that's so embarrassing but, actually, who cares? because it's funny.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#15. Everyone has it
To know what it is.
Take a journey deep within
And open your eyes wide.
Then you will see everything.

Ilchi Lee

#16. Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Madeleine De Scudery

#17. Or we can cast off our fear, gather those things around us that are precious, shedding that which only seeks to hinder us and head out into the world, eyes wide open.

L.B. Johnson