Quotes about eye
eye ill-will hands
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. Hannah Arendt
eye challenges use
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him. Guy de Maupassant
eye men imagination
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination. Guy de Maupassant
eye enemy mobility
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on. Guy de Maupassant
eye promise needs
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. Guy Finley
eye concerts music-is
Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that. Gotye
eye perception searchers
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
eye men dancing
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
eye long arms
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
eye men heretic
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
eye men would-be
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence. Gore Vidal
eye media work-out
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions... Gore Vidal
eye hard-times people
I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot. Gillian Jacobs
eye phones voice
I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope Harvey Milk
eye night thinking
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view. Harold Pinter
eye needs edges
You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open. Jam Master Jay
eye world skeptical
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails. Jamais Cascio
eye writing dark
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race. Jamaica Kincaid
eye responsibility fighting
Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it. Jacques Chirac
eye house humanity
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes Jacques Chirac
eye spirit tradition
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism , in a certain spirit of Marxism . Jacques Derrida
eye writing self
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately Jacques Derrida
eye essence sight
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye. Jacques Derrida
eye soul acting
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups! Jacki Weaver
eye two skulls
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken Jackie Chan
eye thinking people
When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure. Jackie Chan
eye addiction hours
I was doing interviews and a question came up about whether I had anything I was addicted to. I said 'I actually have an addiction to eye drops.' And like, as I was on the phone I'd had my third - in the hour! - dose. I had them with me all the time. Jennifer Aniston
eye giving care
As my doctor said, eventually [your eyes] do start to give out on you if you're not taking care of them. Jennifer Aniston
eye police ministry
The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners. Jean Dubuffet
eye political rivals
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. Jean-Marie Le Pen
eye people stronger
For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray. Gloria Estefan
eye wind fixed
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. Giacomo Casanova
eye way photograph
I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself. Georgia O'Keeffe