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Eyes Quotes

Every young person has to bear the burden – heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer – of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

– Ellen Key

I dye my eyelashes on occasion so I don’t have to wear mascara. I find that mascara weighs on my eyes, making me sleepy, and it is a pain to take off.

– Dylan Lauren

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn’t yet as great as it could be. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future.

– Donna Brazile

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

– Dylan Thomas

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

– Maggie Gallagher

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars – you had to go through one to get to another – and there wasn’t any heat or hot water.

– Frankie Valli

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on on the outside!

– Douglas Adams

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

– Michael Berryman

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

– Eberhard Arnold

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

– David Chalmers

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a ‘Big Bang’ 13.8 billion years ago.

– Martin Rees

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it’s inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you’re probably just as lame in your kids’ eyes.

– Mark Consuelos

When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That’s what I aim to do in Rio – my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can’t get too complacent. I can’t relax; I can’t be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.

– Carmen Marton

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush.

– David Foster Wallace

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, ‘Just open your eyes.’

– Mark Billingham

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

– Gene Tierney

I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the ‘now.’

– Doug Aitken

I’m a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

– Fred Durst

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go – there were no contact lenses in 1957.

– Geoffrey Boycott

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

– Gary Herbert

My favourite beauty look is definitely ’70s beauty – sun kissed skin, wavy hair and defined eyes.

– Erin Heatherton

I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.

– Donnie Yen

All eyes are on you when you’re modeling and acting, and I just didn’t want the attention when I wasn’t working. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

– Carey Lowell

Don’t go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don’t shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

– Debbie Ford

During Seattle’s successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, ‘If $15 is so good, why not $50?’ It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

– Nick Hanauer

I’ll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, ‘No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don’t work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.’ I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

– Gisele Bundchen

Right now, my daughter’s just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I’m just an embarrassment.

– Elizabeth Perkins

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we’re all in Christ, that we’re all the same in God’s eyes.

– Ernie Hudson

I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that’s what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can’t keep up, you ain’t gonna catch up. I’ve been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

– George Benson

I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any music either, though I wish that I could just close my eyes and play the piano – that is my most cherished desire.

– Dhanush

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