Quotes with eye-lids

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  • Honoré de Balzac If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Les Williams If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.
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  • Theodore Roethke In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
    Theodore Roethke
    American poet (1908 - 1963)
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  • Ansel Adams In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Bob Costas It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Kehlog Albran It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • George Eliot It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Rod Serling It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Al Pacino It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...
    Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of
    Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by,
    Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Glory Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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