Red Eyes Black

Famous quotes containing the words red, eyes and/or black:

    “O my luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June;
    O my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “My mother’s mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black except a coffin—a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)