Quotes with mad-eye

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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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  • Barry Sanders Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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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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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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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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  • Baltasar Gracián Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry Kissinger Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Edward Hoagland City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
    Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984)
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Cameron Diaz Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Wallace Stevens Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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