Eyeballs Quotes

• We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

  Dean Rusk

  War, Thinking, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962

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• Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

  John Elder Robison

  Aspergers, Perfectly Natural, Normal

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• I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Moving, Easy, Force

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

  John Lennon

  Humble, Men, Thinking

  John Lennon (2000). “In His Own Write”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

  Linus Torvalds

  Bazaars, Bugs, Enough

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• When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

  Ryan Tedder

  Debt, Broke, Moved

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• The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  Laura Miller

  Deep Thought, Attention, Demand

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• It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

  Sloane Crosley

  Falling In Love, Fall, Response

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.41, Granta Books

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• Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

  Fred Tomaselli

  Art, Believe, Form

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• The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Attention, Genius

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• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Food, Lakes

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• I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

  LIZ

  Eye, Doctors, Rocks

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• Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them. No brain attached. Not even hair - Nothing.There is a place inside your own heart, inside your own being that knows the kind of seemingly foolish things I speak and it is totally thrilled to be reminded of this infinite expanse and infinite joy that it is. Find this place.

  Mooji

  Heart, Two, Space

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• I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.

  David Attenborough

  Atheist, Believe, Butterfly

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• Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Nature, Mean

  Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

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• Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Greatness, Faces, Toes

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 08, 2014

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• The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.

  Chrissie Hynde

  America, Squares, Mcdonalds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’m really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he’s so stubborn that he’d rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don’t you say you hope he does,” she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girl’s face, “because that’s really not helpful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Grateful, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1012, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Noble, Shelves

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Top 10, World

  Source: asianlite.com

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• Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Brain, Mind

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• What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Jars, Pale

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• That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

  Michel Gondry

  Squares, Phones, Light

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's My New Policy - Self-censorship'" By Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  Jim Drain

  Thinking, Color, Would Be

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