One Eye Quotes

Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out
- Bess Streeter Aldrich

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- Neil Armstrong

You remind me of a fairy tale princess. You're so kind."
"Did you not see me smash that guy's phone? I never saw Cinderella attack a lisping dude." Livia closed one eye while reliving her actions.
"No, I guess not. You're my kind of princess, then." Blake ran his hands through her hair.
- Debra Anastasia

Blake?" Livia closed one eye while she waited.
"Livia." He was still there.
"You waited," Livia whispered.
"Of course. I'll always wait."
Livia smiled wider than she thought possible.
- Debra Anastasia

Request away, rock star." Here it comes. "Can she wear a push-up bra? Leave off the panties?" Kyle knew what boys liked.
"When my lips touch her face I like to taste her skin, so maybe the makeup could be on the light side?" Blake closed one eye.
Holy fuck, that's sexy. Kyle felt her heart spit on her soul, taunting, Cole would want you as you are, if you were important enough. But you're not.
- Debra Anastasia

I have to ask you somethingpromise me you'll be open-minded?" She looked tentative.
He nodded.
"I've got some mad skills. Some mad sex skills. I want to do stuff to you, without you worrying about me." She looked at him with one eye closed.
"I can never promise to stop worrying about you," Cole said, smiling. "You're all I think about. But I'm sure my body is up to this task. Do as you must. I won't fight you off," he said with a resolute sigh.
- Debra Anastasia

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.
- Patricia Briggs

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
- Max Barry

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
- Ray Bradbury

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
- Jean Brillat Savarin

Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.'
'There's been a lot on my mind,' I replied.
'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'
- Jim Butcher

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".
- Herbert Butterfield

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
- James Caan

Alan Campbell opened one eye.
From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up into his body again. Toward the last it moved to a cacophony of hammers and lights.
Then he was awake.
The first eye was bad enough. But, when he opened his second eye, such as rush of anguish flowed through his brain that he hastily closed them again.
- John Dickson Carr

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'
I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'
Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.
- Stephen King

Who says I'm not Superman?" You were looking at me with one eye closed against the sun. I shrugged
"You would have recued me by now if you were Superman." I said quietly.
"Who says I haven't?
" Anyone would say you haven't.
Anyone's just looking at it wrong then." You pushed yourself up a little, onto your elbows."Anyways, I can't steal you and rescue you. That would give me multiple personalities."
And you don't have them already?
- Lucy Christopher

I looked down at my stomach. I grabbed at it, seeing how much fat I could lift up in a roll.
"Don't worry," you said, one eye open again like a crocodile watching me. "You're beautiful." You tipped your head back. "Beautiful," you murmured. "Perfect.
- Lucy Christopher

Seconds passed, then... La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey.
Regin let out a low whistle. "The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face."--
--La Dorada swung her head around, peering at Regin with her one eye. "Okay. That's freaky. Lookit, Gollum, if you spring me, I'll help you find your precious.
- Kresley Cole

The person who sat the kid down on the breadboard to cut off thier diaper with a huge knife was the most elderly person in the family, who was blind in one eye..and had the shakes....of course the kids uncouncious, He's lost two pints of blood!
- Eoin Colfer

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
- Moshe Dayan

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
- Moshe Dayan

Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as I believe to this hour, looking for that man) before anybody in the house was stirring. Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open; but I could not concur in this idea; for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.
- Charles Dickens

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.
- Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
- Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
- Charles Dickens

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
- Norman Douglas

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
- Meister Eckhart

No one's making any decisions today," Mom translated. "It's late, and we're all tired and a little overwhelmed. Besides, Lucius, Jessica is not ready to contemplate marriage. She hasn't even kissed a boy yet, for goodness' sake."
Lucius smirked at me, raising one eyebrow. "Really? No suitors? How shocking. I would have thought your pitchfork skills would be attractive to certain bachelors here in farm country.
- Beth Fantaskey

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?"
"I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.
- John Flanagan

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
- Thomas Fuller

Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few minutes. Right up until he unzipped his leather pants and pulled out Mr. One Eye.
- Jeaniene Frost

That's not precisely what I had in mind.
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
- Diana Gabaldon

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!
- Lady Gaga

... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.
- Pauline Gedge

You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake!
Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?
- Kerstin Gier

I held his hand tighter and still squeezing I leant across and kissed his lips, the lips that apologised for his huff as they lovingly connected with mine, and I strained to keep at least one eye on the road.
- Nicci Greene

Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can means lots of different things. It can mean 'I want to do sex with you' and it can also mean 'I think what you just said was very stupid.
- Mark Haddon

I stared at him. Did he really say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away.
Because I remembered. I remembered everything.
- Jenny Han

Sha na tay, sha na tay, he said, his voice becoming more sure as he chanted it, seeking the attention of the Goddess that he was reluctantly beginning to believe in. He'd seen too much not to. His pulse quickened, an awareness seemed to touch on him one eye among thousands idly turning his way. The line was all around him, and dizzy with it, he let it fill his chi. And when he was sure he had the Goddess's attention, he reached for Rachel's chi.
- Kim Harrison

Concentrate on a single feature as, build all toward one eye make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)
- Robert Henri

Collin seemed wholly unfazed by Cameron's appearance. Jack kept one eye carefully trained on him, thinking things had better stay that way. Gay or not, best friend or not, no one with a dick was getting within a foot of Cameron while she wore that dress.
- Julie James

The phrase "In the blink of an eye" is misleading, because one eye closing and opening is not a blinkit's a wink.
- Jarod Kintz

The man with one eye is halfway to being blind. I'm looking at you, Cyclops.
- Jarod Kintz

If I only had one eye, I'd look at my other eyeball with my good eye. It would be in a jar on the dresser, of course, right next to my detachable penis.
- Jarod Kintz

I smiled, and you winked. I think. Perhaps you merely blink with one eye at a time.
- Jarod Kintz

He's half blind," Orafoura said."Oh," I said, "he's only got one eye? They call that a Cyclops.
- Jarod Kintz

I think it would be neat to meet a man who slept with one eye open, especially if that man was a Cyclops.
- Jarod Kintz

One eye sees, the other feels.
- Paul Klee

She quirks one eyebrow and smiles. I see the daring girl rise to the surface. She's feeling like she can take on the world, conquer anything including an ex-boyfriend.
She's ready to jump. And I'm ready to catch her.
- M Leighton

I'm supposed to carry you over the threshold, right?"
I laugh. "If that's what you're doing, I must've slept through something important," I say dryly.
He quirks one eyebrow and shoots me a cocky grin.
"Oh trust me, I won't let you sleep through any of the good stuff.
- M Leighton

Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.
- Scott Lynch

The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin
- Patricia A Mckillip

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there
- Patricia A Mckillip

What I saw was just one eye
In the dawn as I was going:
A bird can carry all the sky
In that little button glowing.
Never in my life I went
So deep into the firmament.
- Harold Monro

...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
- Brandon Mull

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
- Guru Nanak

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
- Horatio Nelson

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.
- Flannery O Connor

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor

Shut one eye then the other
Peek into every corner of yourself
See that there are no nails no thieves
See that there are no cuckoo's eggs
Shut then the other eye
Squat and jump
Jump high high high
On top of yourself
Fall then with all your weight
Fall for days on end deep deep deep
To the bottom of your abyss
Who doesn't break into pieces
Who remains whole gets up whole
Plays
- Vasko Popa

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
- Ezra Pound

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.
- Marilynne Robinson

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
- Patrick Rothfuss

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
- Mary Doria Russell

Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That's a deer shooting hat."
"Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.
- J D Salinger

That's a deer shooting hat.'
'Like hell it is.' I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. 'This is a people shooting hat,' I said. 'I shoot people in this hat.
- J D Salinger

What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.
- George Santayana

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
- Dorothy Sarnoff

He glared at Lucian in the manner of birds, first peering through one eye and then turning his head to peer through the other, apparently finding both views equally loathsome.
- Rachel Swirsky

Wait, Saturday night?" The ladder-backed chair creaked and I looked up as he leaned forward to eye me in growing suspicion. "I thought you stayed home."
I shrugged and raised one eyebrow at him. "I thought I was human.
- Rachel Vincent