Top 100 Quotes About Eyes
#1. People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline ... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#2. Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.
Napoleon Hill
#3. Three old men with moon-silver hair and slow, ponderous movement took him in their arms and laid him on a marble slab and set silver coins on his eyes and swung incense over him, murmuring as
priests do to fill what might otherwise be a god-sent silence.
M.C. Scott
#4. Her eyes shining with the light of it.
Beneath, between, beyond.
Along the endless circle.
Down the ceaseless spiral.
And waiting for her on the other side?
Just like he promised.
...
"A whole sky of different stars.
Amie Kaufman
#5. I closed my eyes, gritting my teeth against feeding into her insanity. "I've obviously lost my mind." "Me too," she agreed as though I was actually speaking to her. "Years ago. Just let it wander. It's much more fun.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#6. So you would literally take a bullet for me."
"No," Claire said, with zero emotion.
"No?" Ryan said, surprised at her answer.
Claire rolled her eyes, annoyed that she had to answer. "If I have time to stand in the way of a bullet, you have time to move.
Jamie McGuire
#7. Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears came to his eyes.
Justin Cronin
#8. I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.
Amy Hoggart
#9. [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
Annie Dillard
#10. Grace was my best friend. I can't let anyone forget her. I'm sure you understand."
Mr. Farrow smiled, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. "Of course, it's easy to rewrite history when we lose a loved one, isn't it? Sometimes we only remember the things we want to remember.
Lisa Roecker
#11. I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.
Amit Abraham
#12. You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.
Jim Butcher
#13. Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
C.S. Lewis
#14. You don't need wings to fly, she chirped.
What do you need, Daughter? I asked softly.
She looked up at me, her big, black eyes alight with knowledge, and she smiled.
Words.
Amy Harmon
#15. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?
John Shors
#16. At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
Matthew Arnold
#17. Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die.
Madeline Miller
#18. He was staring into my eyes, and I felt that shivery thing that happens when you look in someone's eyes and you get goose bumps because you're gaining access.
Bill Konigsberg
#19. length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i.
Nayyirah Waheed
#20. Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.
Lilith Saintcrow
#21. It does not mean you are not awesome, if no one ever appreciates your beauty. But I can see that, in your juicy eyes, funny smiles and innocent face. And I am telling you now; you are exceptionally beautiful and awesome.
M.F. Moonzajer
#22. And then he looked her full in the face, and her heart leapt and sank, as the eyes the dangerous blue of the summer sky before a storm gazed back into hers.
Neil Gaiman
#23. There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?
Ilya Ilf
#24. I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
Scott Brooks
#25. And then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes.
Anne Stuart
#26. Tucking my knees up to my chin, I wait for death. Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life. Then the ants bore into my eyes and I black out.
Suzanne Collins
#27. That's a fifteen-hundred dollar bedspread. Do you know what that means?"
Jessica held up a finger as she finished chewing, a sparkle of excitement in her eyes. "Oh, yes, I know this one. It means that you're an idiot for paying that much money for a semen towel.
Jewel E. Ann
#28. It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman
#29. Look at you," he continued. "I want to build things for you, give you a reason to be soft. Give you a reason not to reach for a fucking gun when you open your eyes.
Debra Anastasia
#30. I was continuously a failure in his eyes, the worst of his pupils who just couldn't seem to learn her lessons.
Heather Lyons
#31. A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Paul Eluard
#32. You're beautiful, fuck me, seriously, so goddamned beautiful sometimes, sweat to God, I think I can't look at you any longer because if I do, your beauty will burn out my eyes.
Kristen Ashley
#33. 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
#34. No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours,
George Lucas
#35. If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
Stephen Levine
#37. The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.
Daniel Keyes
#38. Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces ... Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.
Liane Moriarty
#39. Bennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record.
Jennifer Egan
#41. Science ... has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.
Luther Burbank
#42. Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.
Erich Schiffmann
#43. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#44. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
Elie Wiesel
#45. Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
Jose Saramago
#46. When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.
Frederick Lenz
#47. He walked backwards a few more steps and brought Brittany's hand to his lips without taking his eyes off me.
My hand tingled where he kissed her.
And the bastard knew it.
Gwen Hayes
#48. A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.
Bob Dylan
#49. Sita was breathing hard, her eyes flitting like that of a cornered tigress, anger bursting through every pore.
Amish Tripathi
#50. The true answer to seduction is to open people's eyes to the shallowness of the "beauty" on offer. The
Iain M. Duguid
#51. The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
Georg Trakl
#52. What you have is as much a part of you as the color of your eyes, the shape of your mouth.
Nora Roberts
#53. A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.
Michael Silverblatt
#54. I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need; she's happy, too-we both were till this happened ...
Nancy Garden
#55. What black eyes you have ... "
"All the better to devour you with.
Krista Ritchie
#56. For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.
Sherri Shepherd
#57. You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.
Peter Furler
#58. I think we need to say, 'Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get used to looking for God's glory in each other.
Kevin Paterson
#59. I want you . . . your beautiful face, your taste, your mouth full of lies, your sad, violet eyes - I hate them, but I want them." "Kricket,
Amy A. Bartol
#60. I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you.
Kathleen Peacock
#61. We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
Hunter S. Thompson
#62. Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They're not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.
Cesar Millan
#63. The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
Charles Dickens
#64. That's the hottest guy she's seen in weeks, and now there was no chance of ever getting to know those smoky gray eyes,or his pouty lips.
Solange Nicole
#65. It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?
Emily Bronte
#66. I like girls that have a nice smile and nice eyes. I want to date a girl who understands my busy schedule and that I have to be on tour a lot. And she has to make me laugh!
Austin Mahone
#67. All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.
J.R. Ward
#68. Don't sulk," he told her. "It doesn't become someone of your age."
She rolled her eyes even as, he was delighted to note, she kissed him back. "Oh, the age thing? You just had to go there, didn't you?
Thea Harrison
#69. To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Adolf Hitler
#70. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.
Davy Crockett
#71. The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.
Lois Crisler
#72. When our lips parted, he sighed. "I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anything is possible.
Bijou Hunter
#73. I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.
Angela Bassett
#74. Listen to the whisper of the ocean. See the beauty of her crystal blue eyes. Enjoy the hug of her warm, joyful and dancing beauty. Feel her deep driving desire in her waves.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I want to be that guy you can't ever take out of your head, Rachel. The one you've been waiting for. I want you to have eyes just for me and smile just for me and a tone of voice only I will hear.
Katy Evans
#76. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
#77. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.
Macklemore
#79. I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
Anna Held
#80. And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal.
Rainbow Rowell
#81. Who's Myrnin?"
Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss."
"You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?
Rachel Caine
#83. The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working ... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
Jamie Wyeth
#84. The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.
Tim McCarthy
#85. He can look harmless if he wants to. He is the consummate actor, but unless he works at it, his eyes give him away. If the eyes are the mirror to the soul, then Edward's in trouble because no one is home. He
Laurell K. Hamilton
#86. Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.
Arlene Dahl
#87. I squeeze my eyes shut and whisper in her damp hair. 'You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see.
Colleen Hoover
#89. It freaks me out to stare at myself, especially my eyes, and know all those things I've been thinking inside
Carolyn Mackler
#90. Is truth here
In the ugly unseemliness?
The graceless moments
Before and after
Eyes are watching?
In the unballerina
The unperformed?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#91. He won't leave," Val said, exasperated. "Then, I'll make him leave," Marks growled. I rolled my eyes. "C'mon, Marks. You know the law. He is her husband. If the cops came, you would be the one asked to leave.
Jamie McGuire
#92. When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.
Charlotte Bronte
#93. If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by holding it in front of your eyes, worlds of such beauty and complexity that they took your breath away ... wouldn't you want to show this device to everyone you knew?
Ann Patchett
#94. Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
Kim Harrison
#95. Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
Jeremy Taylor
#96. In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.
Tony D'Souza
#97. I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.
Arthur Machen
#98. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#99. Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck
#100. Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.
Kaye Gibbons
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