Quotes with mad-eye

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Agnes Repplier A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Traherne A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Lorrie Moore A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Grafton A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
    Samuel Grafton
    American journalist and columnist (1907 - 1997)
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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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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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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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  • Bono All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
    Source: CNN Interview, after the 2006 Grammys (9 February 2006)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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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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  • Aaron McGruder And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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