Quotes with eye-lids

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  • Joan Didion A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Cate Blanchett Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Alexander Pope All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Norman Mailer America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for an eye will leave everyone blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Adam Clarke And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Beckett Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
    Murphy
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • William Blake As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bethenny Frankel Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Bob Beamon Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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