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“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can su...”
“We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.”
“When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of cour...”
“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
“I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'W...”
“If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, bu...”
“I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get u...”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensi...”
“We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a c...”
“Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.”
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
“Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch T...”
“Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never g...”
“For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.”
“A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.”
“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
“The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.”
“I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire ...”
