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Eye Quotes

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

Eye, Television

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"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."

"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled."

Georg Buchner, German Dramatist

Eye, Pain, Sky, Stars

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"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"

"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"

Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

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"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."

"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

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"A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent."

"A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

Eye, Eyes, Gentleman, Present

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

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

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

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"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."

Richard Perle, American Public Servant

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"I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo."

"I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo."

Birgit Nilsson, Swedish Musician

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"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater."

"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater."

Steven Squyres, American Scientist

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

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

James Hetfield, American Musician

Eye, Fun, Games

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"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."

"But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity."

Felix Bloch, Swiss Scientist

Eye, Eyes, Generations, Necessity, Pressure

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"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

Charles Laughton, English Actor

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"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."

"The least touchable object in the world is the eye."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

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

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

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Eye, Eyes, Hollywood, Teenage

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"Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over."

"Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over."

Jeff Buckley, American Musician

Eye, Eyes, Memories, Thinking

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"George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me."

"George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me."

Keith Thibodeaux, American Musician

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"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."

"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."

Alicia Keys, American Musician

Eye, Eyes, Favorite, First, Key

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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

David K. Shipler, American Journalist

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"If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush."

"If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush."

Vanessa Hudgens, American Actress

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"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."

"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."

Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

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"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."

"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

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"Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese."

"Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese."

Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

Eye, Eyes, Value

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"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

Eye, Eyes, Open

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"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."

"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Eye, Makeup, Sheep, Want

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"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."

"In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public."

Dwight Schultz, American Actor

Eye, Eyes, Fact, Public, Talk

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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."

Lawrence G. Lovasik, American Clergyman

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"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."

"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."

Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor

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"My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there."

"My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there."

Amy Sedaris, American Actress

Eye, Kitchen, Right, Skin

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"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross."

"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross."

Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist

Eye, Eyes, Trees

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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Eye, Eyes, Meaning, Now

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"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

Rutger Hauer, Dutch Actor

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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."

Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Composer

Eye, Mind, State

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