You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into yo...ur two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers think and talk in concrete, literal terms. When they hear a phrase such as "losing your temper," they may wonder wher...e the lost temper can be found. Other expressions they may hear in times of crisis--raising your voice, crying your eyes out, going to pieces, falling apart, picking on each other, you follow in your father's footsteps--may be perplexing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light.... Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun "mine" or "my own," with what luxu...rious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the sweetest food be sharp as vinegar, and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, ope...n their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and ...hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before we drained out one another's force With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret... And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce And the treachery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »