„The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.
She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.
We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.
It's great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.“
Tim Burton6
US-amerikanischer Autor, Produzent und Filmregisseur 1958Ähnliche Zitate
„She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…“
— Arundhati Roy, buch Der Gott der kleinen Dinge
Quelle: The God of Small Things
„You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.“
— David Benioff, buch Stadt der Diebe
Quelle: City of Thieves
„Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know
I met her walkin' down a uptown street
She's so fine you know I wished she was mine
I get shook up every time we meet“
— Chuck Berry American rock-and-roll musician 1926 - 2017
"I'm Talking About You" (1961)
Song lyrics
„Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.“
— Wally Lamb, buch She's Come Undone
Quelle: She's Come Undone
„All at once I loathed her, because she had hurt me. This girl! She had torn up my sonnet by Dowson, she had shown my telegram to everybody in the Columbia Buffet. She had made a fool of me at the beach. She suspected my virility, and her suspicion was the same as the scorn in her eyes. I watched her face and lips and thought how it would be a pleasure to strike her, send my fist with all force against her nose and lips.“
— John Fante, buch Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust (1939)
„One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.“
— Tove Jansson Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914 - 2001
„She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.“
— Beverly Cleary, buch Ramona the Pest
Quelle: Ramona the Pest
„Why com'st thou like a girl with blubber'd eyes,
Who running by her busie mother cries
To be ta'en up, and by her garments holds,
Till she the fondling in her arms infolds.“
— John Ogilby Scottish academic 1600 - 1676
Book XVI
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
„I realized that wherever she came from, whatever shaped her, she’s the quintessence of the horror behind the bright billboard. She’s the smile that tricks you into throwing away your money and your life. She’s the eyes that lead you on and on, and then show you death. She’s the creature you give everything for and never really get. She’s the being that takes everything you’ve got and gives nothing in return. When you yearn towards her face on the billboards, remember that. She’s the lure. She’s the bait. She’s the Girl.“
— Fritz Leiber American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910 - 1992
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 241)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
„If she walks by, the men folks get engrossed,
She can't help it, the girl can't help it,
If she winks an eye, the bread slice turn to toast,
She can't help it, the girl can't help it,
If she got a lot, of what they call the most,
She can't help it, the girl can't help it.“
— Bobby Troup American actor and musician 1918 - 1999
The Girl Can't Help It, first sung by Little Richard
Song lyrics
„He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven. … He hasn’t seen her in twelve years. Now she’s twenty-two. It’s a real strange relationship. …This is a resource that you can either mine or not. It's not as blatant as we're talking about. You don't think about it that much. You don't immediately realize how old she was at the time. It would be subtle. She could talk about it. "I was jail bait the last time we were together." She can flaunt it at him, but at the same time she never says, "I was fifteen years old." Even if we don't mention it, when we go to cast the part we're going to end up with a woman who's about twenty-three and a hero who's about thirty- five.“
— George Lucas American film producer 1944
1970s
„I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties!“
— Larry the Cable Guy American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist 1963
Quelle: Git-R-Done (book), p. 113
„Every woman I knew secretly longed to have many lovers but she stopped herself for so many reasons. I had the capacity to love many at a time and for this had been called shallow and wayward and a good-time girl…“
— Protima Bedi Indian model and dancer 1948 - 1998
She wrote in "Timepass: The Memoir of Protima Bedi" quoted in She had a lust for life, 5 February 2000, The Tribune http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000205/windows/above.htm,
„He was a boy, she was girl. Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk; she did ballet. What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well. All of her friends stuck up their nose, they had a problem with his baggy clothes. He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space. She needed to come back down to Earth!“
— Avril Lavigne Canadian singer-songwriter and actress 1984
"Sk8er Boi"
Let Go (2002)
„My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms.“
— Henry Rollins, buch Black Coffee Blues
Black Coffee Blues
„And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.“
— Kazuo Ishiguro, buch Alles, was wir geben mussten
Quelle: Never Let Me Go
„She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't.“
— Alison Lohman American actress 1979
On her role in White Oleander.
Interview in USA Today, 7 Oct 2002
„We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)
Kontext: This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. [... ] America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- so long as we seize it together. For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.