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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt VonnegutRead
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis De TocquevilleRead
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauRead
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan ThomasRead
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 BlanchettRead
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
Taylor SwiftRead
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Bram StokerRead
You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady StantonRead
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce SpringsteenRead
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker EvansRead
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
Julius ErvingRead
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
Joseph AddisonRead
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
Nikki GiovanniRead
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.
Mark TwainRead
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.
Mark TwainRead
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.
David O. MckayRead
ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
Ambrose BierceRead
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye
William ShakespeareRead

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