Wool Over My Eyes Quotes

#1. My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#2. I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it ... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

Gary Coleman

#3. It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton

#4. I don't think you're going to pull the wool over anyone's eyes with all this macrame talk.

FayJay

#5. It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

Cary Fukunaga

#6. I wondered at first whether she might not be feigning timidity out of courtesy to a man of an older generation, but a cold gin moisture came out on her beautiful face and she appeared to be appealing to me do something.

Saul Bellow

#7. 'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

Beverly Cleary

#8. The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.

Patti Smith

#9. A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Clint Eastwood

#10. But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.

Brandi L. Bates

#11. Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Nicola Sturgeon

#12. There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Tara Brach

#13. A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

P.T. Barnum

#15. Paul connects faith and hope. Rather than saying young people have faith if they believe without doubt, it might be better to say they have faith if, up against doubt, fear, and struggle, they hope.

Andrew Root

#16. It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

Kate Christensen

#17. Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

Walter J Chantry

#18. President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

Ellen Tauscher

#19. There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bill Walton

#20. I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Nancy Grace

#21. Well, Louie, you'll know then that Leviticus also tells us not to cut our beards, not to wear linen and wool together nor to eat crayfish or frogs or snails. I'm afraid that if we adhered to Leviticus the entire French nation would be an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

Paula Boock