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Everything looks better with my eyes closed.


Rick Springfield

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TONY ARATA I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
TONY ARATA I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed
TONY ARATA The first time we kissed, I closed my eyes, You closed your eyes and........ We missed!
UNKNOWN My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
JOHN LENNON Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I closed my eyes and I was praying.
DAN SPELLMAN With open eyes, I see the reality, with closed eyes, I see the virtuality.
ASHLEY RICHARDSON Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open.
ERIC COLLIER Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO VISUALIZE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED AND ACHIEVE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES OPEN !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS Don't walk through life with your eyes closed.
ERIC JOHNSON This memory, this pretty little stone, I examine it with my eyes closed tight. Turn it over in my fi...
JOSEPH BOYDEN My eyes are open now and can never be closed.
JASMINE ANGELL Only a fool will Walk backwards with eyes Closed
EDWINA AKOS ADJEI People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
ANDY WARHOL Good luck, Vicky, and shoot with your eyes closed.
DAPHNE HONMA I just closed my eyes and hoped it was a dream.
LOGAN HAWLEY Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
JOHN LENNON Everybody wake up, if you're living with your eyes closed.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND GOOD LOOKS! Good looks with profit you with lots of friends and eyes.
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI Single closed mind is worse than double closed eyes. Closed eyes only cease to see outside world but...
ANUJ SOMANY At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
JACK KEROUAC It takes only five minutes from the box to the water, with no tools. I can put the boat together wit...
GEORGE DOMENECH BAD LOOKS! Bad looks will debt you with lots of friends and eyes.
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was up all night. I had just lay down and closed my eyes.
SONIA MACK I haven't closed my eyes since before the storm. Everything was just going on the upside and it just...
YOLONCA JOHNSON Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.
CATHERINE LACEY I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
JANET FITCH I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.
JANE BIRKIN I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you.
APRILYNNE PIKE Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
CHARLES DICKENS I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.
RAYMOND OCHOA I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
RICK SPRINGFIELD The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I think good art does come from a dark place.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I get inspired at different times and in different ways.
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RICK SPRINGFIELD Certainly with the radio now, a lot of late 20s, 30s and 40-year-olds don't listen to that music. Th...
RICK SPRINGFIELD They're songs I honestly wish I'd written. I had a huge list of songs but wanted to keep the album a...
RICK SPRINGFIELD It's a big number, but I'm OK with it, ... I went through my midlife crisis at about 38 and 39, so I...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I think the new adventurous music is for the kids in a state of flux - they're open to all that - an...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Probably General Hospital had more to do with me getting known physically than MTV did,
RICK SPRINGFIELD I was more than just a moody artist.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
RICK SPRINGFIELD [The four days have turned into a longer storyline.] I think we all need to see how it pans out, ......
RICK SPRINGFIELD Things haven't gone well for Noah.
RICK SPRINGFIELD It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
RICK SPRINGFIELD Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.
RICK SPRINGFIELD There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
RICK SPRINGFIELD I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and N...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.
RICK SPRINGFIELD My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I went through some therapy, working on what was going on inside me, and I got back on track. I cert...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Thirty, 40 times a day I must get questions when I'm on the road about General Hospital or Noah Drak...
RICK SPRINGFIELD Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
RICK SPRINGFIELD They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doi...
RICK SPRINGFIELD It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love m...
RICK SPRINGFIELD I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
RICK SPRINGFIELD If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
RICK SPRINGFIELD The day I closed my eyes and stopped looking for love, was the day I found it.
NICHOLAS SHORTER The guy grabbed me, I closed my eyes and after he left me alone, I walked away.
EDITH SHAIN I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with ...
CLAIRE HOLDEN ROTHMAN I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes E.E. CUMMINGS If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or b...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you o...
NATHAN PARKS I kissed my fingers,held my palm flat beside my mouth and blew it into the air that surrounded her m...
BELINDA JEFFREY I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wondering if anything in my life had ever been this perf...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
BRIAN CELIO They will be sleeping with both eyes closed for the first time in so many years.
HARISH BHARTI My eyes were closed but I could see your smile I can't hear a thing but your voice echoes my mind
SADIA IMRAN SAIGAL She looks at him (Andrew) with such love in her eyes.
APRIL GODRA I had closed my eyes and it kind of bounced off us. That knocked us out of business.
LEO LATLIP It even looks a little like me, ... He's got my eyes, my great big bulbous eyes, and he has my stamm...
DAVE FOLEY Indeed, Chicago seems to have literally sucked the air out of Springfield: another case of American ...
ROBERT D. KAPLAN He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Faith resembles walking confidently and steady with your head held high, all while your eyes are clo...
VERONICA S. MCCOY That was an accident. I didn't know where to go so I closed my eyes and made a move.
ALEX KOVALEV Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; eve...
KATE MOSS And looks commercing with the skies, / Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
JOHN MILTON Sometimes u can't trust your self are your own family & friends...So bury the money with your eyes c...
FLAMESTARTA This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
DR. FREDERICK LEBOYER The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it w...
DENIS DIDEROT I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
...
JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see peopl...
CONOR OBERST Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are ...
BILLY MARTIN Bless you, daugher of man," Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and...
RICHELLE MEAD Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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You'd probably ki...
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They tell me cool stuff."
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Her...
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RICK RIORDAN The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human b...
RICK RIORDAN She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbre...
RICK RIORDAN Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”
“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”...
RICK RIORDAN Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
RICK RIORDAN She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a...
RICK RIORDAN Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
RICK RIORDAN Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a tot...
RICK RIORDAN Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so...
RICK RIORDAN Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of wha...
RICK RIORDAN Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we ...
RICK RIORDAN He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank...
RICK RIORDAN Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the ...
RICK RIORDAN Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in ...
RICK RIORDAN Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a ...
RICK RIORDAN Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
RICK RIORDAN They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
RICK RIORDAN