Quotes about wide-eyed (15 Quotes)




    The whole series is about the loss of innocence, ... In the first one 'The Sorcerer's Stone', everyone's very wide-eyed, almost nave. Harry's thinking that because he's entering a magical world, it's got to be better than the world he's come from. But it's not it's just got further extremes. It can have extreme joy, but there are also the depths that man can sink to.

    When he came here he was 18 years old and kind of wide-eyed, ... He did some good things as a freshman. But he was a boy and now he has come back a man. He has worked out hard in the weight room.

    No. These guys are having so much fun. They will be a bit like fans in the sense that they'll be wide-eyed, but I think that will be on Thursday and Friday. When Saturday comes and they know they get a chance to play basketball again, they'll look forward to playing the game.


    It's always interesting to remember them their first couple days in the gym as wide-eyed freshman, who were really trying to figure out what was going on, what to do. And four or five years later, they're leaders of the team.

    A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking 'What do you do for a living' 'I study astronomy,' he replied. 'Really said the teenager, wide-eyed. 'I finished astronomy last year.'

    As a player, you're coming in wide-eyed and bushy-tailed and you have no idea of all the things that are going to be thrown at you at a very early stage, and it can be frightening at times.

    I think many people end up taking buyout offers quickly because 100,000 (or some other lump-sum payment) can seem like a great deal of money, only to end up realizing after the fact that it wasn't enough to justify leaving. People need to avoid the wide-eyed feeling of I'm winning the lottery and make sure they think about if I am 50 I still got decades ahead of me.

    Wright is just a different person now, ... You come into Miami as an 18-year-old and you get a little wide-eyed, like 'Holy crap, what's going on here' Now, you kind of get through a couple years, it's not so much of a big deal anymore. Now it's his time, the pressure's off a little bit, he understands what he's got to do. And it's just a matter of knowing that he doesn't have to make the big play.

    He's a lot more poised than I was at that age. His work ethic is great. I think going to college helped him, because he was already fine-tuned. When I went out there, I was kind of wide-eyed. He went out there focused.




    I liked the way we bounced back against Delaware. I was more upset that we were sort of flat and intimidated by Marysville. It looked like we were wide-eyed. We didn't know what to do. Against Delaware we knew we were back on the track, but I thought we looked a bit timid against Marysville where we shouldn't have been.



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