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My Eyes Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
- I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae…
- I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the…
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down…
More My Eyes Quotes
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life.… — Lucille Ball
- I go to work the minute I open my eyes. — Lynda Barry
- I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali
- When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her… — Christina Aguilera
- Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. — Anne Bronte
- I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in… — Scott Brooks
- And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. — Donald Cargill
- Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if… — Giacomo Casanova
- I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're… — Nick Cave