Quotes about eyelashes

A collection of quotes on the topic of eyelash, eyelashes, likeness, bat.

Quotes about eyelashes

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“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

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“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: The Favorite Game

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“The password is a flicker of an eyelash.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Selected Poems

Jacqueline Woodson photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
Jodi Picoult photo
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Gerald Durrell photo

“A leg I noticed next, fine as a mote,
"And on this frail eyelash he walked," I said,
"And climbed and walked like any mountain-goat."”

Karl Shapiro (1913–2000) Poet, essayist

"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz

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“It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash.”

Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines

To Gen. Richard Sutherland after their flight over Japanese held territory to reach Australia (17 March 1942), as quoted in MacArthur and the War Against Japan (1944) by Frazier Hunt, p. 71

Regina Spektor photo
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Saki photo
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“Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-fixed
Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing’s life.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet

" The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe http://www.bartleby.com/122/37.html", lines 1-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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