My Eyes Wide Open Quotes

#1. I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

Tony Arata

#2. It takes me five rounds to hit the middle of the target, and when I do, a rush of energy goes through me. I am awake, my eyes wide open, my hands warm.

Veronica Roth

#3. Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

David Spade

#4. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line.

Johnny Cash

#5. I keep my eyes wide open. Because trouble is out there.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#6. I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?

Clarice Lispector

#7. Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open."
from "The Beauty of Ugh

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch.
It was Zsadist.
His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang.
The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel.

J.R. Ward

#9. It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

Anil Ambani

#10. We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.

Troy Aikman

#11. You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Jonathan Maberry

#12. 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

#13. The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows

Hope Mirrlees

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

A. Mani

#15. I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.

Andre Breton

#16. Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

Brandon Heath

#17. I suggest you marry Jorgen Hartman. In fact, I strongly suggest it." Odette looked at Jorgen. He looked back at her. By his wide eyes and open mouth, he had not expected the margrave to say that any more than she had. She

Melanie Dickerson

#18. But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

R.A. Salvatore

#19. Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

Paul Fleischman

#20. King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces.
She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.

Christine Feehan

#21. Live with your eyes wide open.

Sheila Hendrix

#22. 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

#23. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri

#24. I love your personality, I said with wide eyes and an open smile. I had used this look before when a bank teller at Wells Fargo had threatened to put a ten-day hold on a check from my father because my average balance was $3.56.

Chelsea Handler

#25. Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

Georges Rouault

#27. I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.

Amit Abraham

#28. The second I open my car door I'm ready to kill her. "Fucking shit!" I slam my hand on the roof. There, on the back seat, is a guy, eyes wide open and staring lifelessly at the ceiling. His head is at an odd angle, and his jaw is hanging open. She snapped his neck. What is she? Jackie-Fucking-Chan?

L.P. Lovell

#29. 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

#30. I can't be seen climbing through no hearse's hatchback! It used to be dead bodies back there!" "You a lie. Me and my woman ain't dead," Cousin Shake insisted. My eyes popped wide open. The visual he'd just painted was about to send me crazy. "Cousin

Ni-Ni Simone

#31. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

Violette Leduc

#32. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

#33. Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open, but they don't see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby's arm.

Haruki Murakami

#34. Go through life with your eyes wide open and do not react to failures with a burst of negative emotions

Sunday Adelaja

#35. Hi, Hanna." Her mouth dropped open and her beautiful eyes went wide. "You didn't call me Ziggy." Smiling, I whispered, "I know." "Say it again?" Her voice came out husky, as if she was asking me to touch her again, to kiss her again.

Christina Lauren

#36. She's pretty in an unsophisticated way, like a Midwestern farm girl, and you can see the wide-open prairies behind her, the blue-skied meadows in her eyes.

Jonathan Tropper

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

Richard John Neuhaus

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

Richard Ashcroft

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

Charles Simic

#40. I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.

Erin Brady

#41. But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

Neil Gaiman

#42. I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

Caleb Landry Jones

#43. I can't change the past, I can only walk into my future with eyes wide open, taking responsibility for myself and my actions.

Elle Casey

#44. In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.

Tom Verlaine

#45. I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

Ryan Adams

#46. If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

Rebecca Wells

#48. 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

#49. No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.

Valencia Mackie

#50. Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Benjamin Franklin

#51. The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Adolf Hitler

#52. I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

Gavin Hood

#53. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with a buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry.

Ray Bradbury

#54. I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

Maria Shriver

#55. The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

C.J. Roberts

#56. Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D.H. Lawrence

#57. Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.

Johnny Tillotson

#58. Philippe liked to daydream with his eyes wide open and I could often tell from looking at the changing intensity of the colours reflected there and the faintest of smiles animating his lips that he was in a world of his own that brought him great comfort in ways I could never understand

Myriam J.A. Chancy

#59. As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.

Carlos Wallace

#60. She had been a princess in a faraway kingdom when a jolt like a thousand bolts of electricity forced her eyes wide open.

C.E. Weisman

#61. Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open

Katherine Paterson

#62. James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

Bob Dylan

#63. 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

#64. [Happily broken] arms unlocked. Eyes wide open.
Eager. Torn apart. Heart explosive.
Fingers composing [Happily broken].
Come in, come in. I am ready. I am open.
Happy to be open [Happily broken].

Coco J. Ginger

#65. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!

Gabriel Iqbal

#66. When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When

Jack Kornfield

#67. Because I love you!"

There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.

His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.

Damon Suede

#68. My eyes open wide. It worked. One by one, the Watchers nod in my direction with respect in their eyes.

Susan Ee

#69. Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams

#70. The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion ... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Orhan Pamuk

#71. Don't believe the idea of "build it and they will come." Go in with your wide eyes open, you can have it all.

Timi Nadela

#72. Liberation is a beautiful thing when embarking on the glorious moment when the truth about someone is revealed to you, in bold and vibrant color and you have the courage, with wide-open eyes to see reality more vividly, and the wisdom to act accordingly.

Elissa Gabrielle

#73. Open your mouth, tesoro." He angled her face higher. "Open your mouth for me."
At his raw demand, her eyes flared wide. For a drunken moment, he drowned in glorious brown, rich, autumnal, sensual.

Anna Campbell

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

Dave Matthews

#75. I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Max More

#77. You're surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too.

Charles Benoit

#78. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

#79. When you're unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open

Yasmin Ahmad

#80. Is he really so much like the monster James tracked across Siberia?"
Her eyes popped wide open, and then began flickering wildly from Edward to Seth to me, around and around.
"Not the same?" she snarled in her little girl's soprano. "Impossible!

Stephenie Meyer

#81. Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

Lincoln Hall

#82. Pray diligently. Stay alert, with your eyes wide open in gratitude.

Anonymous

#83. Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

Ivana Trump

#84. The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

Jacob Braude

#85. 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

#86. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Antonio Machado