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"The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been."
"Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there.""
"Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character."
"I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical."
"I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come."
"I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears."
"The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'"
"One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']"
"Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched."
"Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes."
"The eye will have his part."
"The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]"
"The eye and Religion can beare no jesting."
"Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye."
"Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]"
"Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die."
"Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow."
"Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]"
"He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]"
"Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it."
