Starry Eyed Quotes

#1. I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

Etta James

#2. Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Craig Brown

#3. The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.

Lionel Barber

#4. To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#5. Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy.

Thomas Mallon

#7. I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

John Krasinski

#8. You want her to like you. But when you rescue somebody ... it complicates things. Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. Don't ... don't make my mistakes.

Rick Riordan

#9. Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.

Jacqueline Carey

#10. We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

Tiffany Madison

#11. The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

Peter J. Carroll

#12. Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Robert Gottlieb

#13. And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.

Robin Jones Gunn

#14. Beautiful girls in fairy stories are as common as pebbles on the beach. Magnolia-skinned milkmaids rub shoulders with starry-eyed princesses and, in fact, counting two eyes in each bright-eyed damsel would result in a whole galaxy of twinkling stars.

Eloisa James

#15. While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

Elissa Schappell

#16. These two Joes - the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer - were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.

Pythia Peay

#17. Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

Rick Riordan

#18. Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.

Alan W. Watts

#19. The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for the limited amount of diversity visas available every year, illustrating the demand and need to maintain this vital path to American citizenship.

Cedric Richmond

#20. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. Some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with the hands of lust,
some with the hands of gold:
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE, because
THE DEAD SO SOON GROW COLD.

Oscar Wilde

#22. Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

Will Rogers

#23. let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars.

Sanober Khan

#24. [His pain] wasn't a punishment. It wasn't a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn't all his life was, not always.

Heidi Cullinan

#25. Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

#26. The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

Neal Boortz

#27. To put a dreamer in their place isn't dreaming.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana