- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eyes Quotes
What we notice, and what it says about us.
These quotes treat eyes as more than a body part, using them to talk about identity, humor, and the habit of noticing detail. One line of advice about staying observant as a writer sits comfortably next to Look quotes on the same theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
- Coming Of Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
- Host
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I sit down for about five minutes and review all the problems I'm working on, research problems or writing problems, and I go to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, I've trained myself to not open my eyes and to just lie there and recall the problems and see if there's anything there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something to be said for being sleepy-eyed. I love sleepy eyes - that sort of vulnerability of being slightly discombobulated because you don't know where you are. But I like that vulnerability. It's sexy to me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020