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Eye Quotes

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he’s a different player.

– John McEnroe

I just don’t believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.

– James Lankford

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, ‘No, you have to let me lead.’ So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

– John Travolta

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

– John Hench

When you are in the public eye, it is really counterproductive to think about how you’re viewed in the eyes of others. You just have to be who you are.

– Ivanka Trump

Whatever you build, you’re building for the family – not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

– J. B. Pritzker

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

– John Lennon

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

– John Patrick Shanley

After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

– Iman

The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.

– Jeremy Irons

Competition for places can only benefit you. If you know you’ve got that much competition, then you’re just going to have to work that extra bit harder so you can catch the gaffer’s eye.

– Jamie Vardy

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there’s this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I’m in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

– Alanis Morissette

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

– Carolina Herrera

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

– James Nesbitt

I use Revlon waterproof mascara. And then I love a smokey eye when I perform because I think it’s important to make your eyes pop when you’re on stage.

– Ciara

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

– Clifton Fadiman

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that ‘free stuff’ is in the eye of the beholder.

– Jennifer Granholm

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

– Joshua Waitzkin

At night if I’m in a hurry, I’ll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It’s a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

– Brooke Burns

A novel – it’s also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

– Ingrid Betancourt

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics – the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw – but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

– Bayard Taylor

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it’s my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what’s happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

– Jonas Mekas

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

– Broderick Crawford

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

– Adrian Edmondson

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

– Aristotle

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

– Bill Cosby

If you’re in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

– Blake Shelton

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It’s arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.

– Joe Montana

I thought I understood the story very well, because I’ve lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that’s in your head.

– Andrew McCarthy

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