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Eye Quotes

When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

– Hugh Laurie

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

– Horace

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

– Harvey Weinstein

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

People become actors because they want to hide, and it’s not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven’t found a comfortable way to deal with it.

– Jimmy Smits

If you’re writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you’re reading a poem that’s written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you’re not going to see the thing whole in the song. You’re going to hear it in series, and you can’t skip back.

– James Fenton

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I’ve always got one eye on what’s in the bank.

– Jasper Carrott

When I was little, I didn’t really travel – from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner’s eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there’s the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

– JR

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

– Ian Mckellen

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader – the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It’s what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

– John Ortberg

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don’t have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.

– Johnny Weir

I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

– Johnny Weir

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

– Jack Nicholson

Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom’s eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.

– John Battelle

You’re always in the storm’s eye, so to speak, when you’re with the Yankees.

– Joe Torre

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

– Joan Didion

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

– Ivanka Trump

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

– Joan Didion

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

– Jupiter Hammon

It’s all fun and games ’till someone loses an eye, then it’s just fun you can’t see.

– James Hetfield

I don’t watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers.

– Joe Montana

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

– Joseph Joubert

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.

– Jan Koum

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

– Jean-Marie Le Pen

I’ve been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

– John Patrick Shanley

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

– James Sinegal

My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn’t that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.

– Hannah Storm

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director’s doing is directing the audience’s eye through the film.

– Julianne Moore

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