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Eye Quotes

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

– Jamais Cascio

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

– Jim Fowler

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.

– Janet Yellen

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

– Hugh Bonneville

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

– Jesse Eisenberg

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

– Julie Burchill

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

– John Major

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

– J. K. Rowling

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

– Hermann Ebbinghaus

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

– Joe Frazier

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don’t want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I’ve gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it’s just hard.

– Helen Hunt

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

– John Fogerty

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

– James Thomson

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

– James Fenton

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store.

– Jodie Foster

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

– Jerry Saltz

At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

– Joe Bastianich

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they’re two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it’s so contained.

– Jake Epstein

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier – as though, after decades in the public eye, they’d suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

– James McGreevey

I don’t feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

– Jason Bateman

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn’t healthy.

– Hilary Duff

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

– Joe Biden

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you’ll look around a room and can’t find them and there’s a searing pain that goes through your body.

– Jodie Foster

I don’t study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I’m not watching film – I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don’t say, ‘Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,’ because it’s got to be my eye.

– James Cromwell

I’ve got my eye on Big Cass and Enzo Amore. I think they ooze everything that it takes to be a WWE superstar. They have so much energy. Those guys and the Vaudevillains are the guys I’ve been tipping my cap to on the viewership side.

– John Cena

The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was ‘Oz,’ in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

– J. K. Simmons

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn’t in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

– Jensen Ackles

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You’re not moving so fast that you miss the world’s details passing by – in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

– John Battelle

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind’s eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we’re living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

– Jamie Foxx

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