There Eyes Were Watching God Quotes

#1. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper

Tanya Huff

#2. An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. She knew because she looked.

Zora Neale Hurston

#4. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#5. For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. Let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Eugene H. Peterson

#8. Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.

Michael Shaara

#9. Those who read Middlemarch in that way will find little in Their Eyes Were Watching God to please them. It's about a girl who takes some time to find the man she really loves. It is about the discovery of self in and through another.

Zadie Smith

#10. There in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest for fear it might be thought mere curiosity. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. - ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Janet Mock

#11. The Doctor puffed out some air and looked down to the sea. 'A very charming man. I should be more careful of very charming men ... At least I don't have that problem with you, Rory.'
'Oi,' said Rory.

James Goss

#12. Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

B.K.S. Iyengar

#13. He admitted to me that seeing a person die was one of the most incredible experiences he'd ever had. It made him feel human, watching the life leave their eyes. I tried to tell him that fucking me would make him feel like God, but he didn't buy it.

Nicole Castle

#14. Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

Zadie Smith

#17. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

Greg Laurie

#20. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master; walking altogether like harmony in a song. - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

#21. I shan't marry a prince!

Gail Carson Levine

#22. We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Dickens

#23. Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.

Mary Stewart

#24. Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.

Indra Nooyi

#25. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Arthur Golden

#26. They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

Zora Neale Hurston