Squinting Eyes Quotes

#1. How is your handwriting?" I ask. "Do you write in pencil or pen?" They stare back at me with squinting eyes and a look that needs no words. "Get with it granddad.

Fennel Hudson

#2. The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Homer

#3. He had lines around his eyes from years of squinting against the sun. The sun. That's exactly what it felt like to her, giving her light and nourishment, always there, predictable.

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Gore Vidal

#5. I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Diane Sawyer

#6. Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

Louise Closser Hale

#7. What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

J.K. Rowling

#8. Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?
Is there icing on it? he'd said.
Dad had done that thing of squinting his eyes when an answer was not quite there yet.

George Saunders

#9. Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

Jessica Shirvington

#10. I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness ... whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

Themistocles

#12. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Ajahn Amaro

#13. Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

Ardant Du Picq

#14. I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me.

John Hodgman

#15. Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#16. 'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

Mike Nichols

#17. Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#18. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Alexander Theroux

#19. There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

Chris O'Dowd