Quotes / What Beautiful Eyes!

"I said, "Hey. Here's my, uh, my stand-in. He's got blue eyes!" He went, "No, no. Malcolm, I think people know your eyes." And I went, "Well, that sucks.""

—Malcolm McDowell on filming the lidlock scenes in A Clockwork Orange

"Have you ever stared into his eyes? It's like the first time I heard The Beatles."

— Seth, Superbad

"I've been a knight for 30 years, and there's one thing I learned. A person with eyes as bright and true as yours is no deceiver."

— Wallace to Lyn, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword

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"And those big blue eyes. Like stars. He is glad to see me. I am in heaven. That man has everything to be king."

— Joseph Goebbels, describing his first meeting with Hitler in a 1926 diary entry

"She [The Boss] asked me to tell you something... "I've never seen someone with such clear eyes."

— EVA, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

"It's those sea-green eyes that could make any cold-blooded murderess confess on the spot."

— Now Magazine, on Benedict Cumberbatch

"... Don't touch me... Stop... DON'T TOUCH ME!! ... A woman...? .... Dark eyes...."

— Guts, during his delirious, Intimate Healing with Casca, Berserk

He tilted his head at me with a quizzical look in his eyes. Those big, green eyes… stop that.

— Astrid experiences this trope while narrating, in the fanfic Talking In Her Sleep

"I must admit that I'm still not great at interacting with young men. But I think I am finally able to speak to Master Link while looking him in the eyes! Those wonderful eyes... Naturally I still get a little embarrassed... but I can't help it! I always follow his gorgeous gaze with my own. I blame his beautiful blue eyes. Ugh. This is all so strange..."

—Paya's Diary, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Once again we're presented with a wholly unbelievable romantic angle. MacLean was strangely fixated on the deep feelings that develop between highly skilled agents and random women with large eyes.

— Review of The Golden Gate, by Alistair MacLean

"The eyes are the nipples of the face."

— Shelley, The House Bunny

"In your eyes
The light, the heat
(Your eyes)
I am complete
(Your eyes)
I see the doorway
(Your eyes)
To a thousand churches
(Your eyes)
The resolution
(Your eyes)
Of all the fruitless searches.
(Your eyes)"

— Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes"

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