Quotes about eye
eye vision moments
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing. William Golding
eye secret way
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. Wilfred Owen
eye color giving
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause. Washington Allston
eye artist soul
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation. Wassily Kandinsky
eye hammers
The eyes are hammers.
eye piano color
Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.
eye color soul
It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance...
eye society velvet
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface Washington Irving
eye writing thinking
I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery. Walter Kohn
eye facts habit
The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. Walter Lippmann
eye men essence
The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.
eye men doctors
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
eye color may
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. Voltaire
eye reflection mirrors
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
eye yellow phases
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born. William Plomer
eye night light
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes. William Powell
eye aerospace want
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. William Hurt
eye night voice
And kind the voice and glad the eyes That welcome my return at night. William C. Bryant
eye imagination mind
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ. William Butler Yeats
eye silence mind
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
eye roaring needles
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye....
eye judging
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
eye wind hair
The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart....
eye dark vanity
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.
eye thinking voice
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
eye play age
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness....
eye pearls rolling
I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.
eye feet fire
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.
eye kissing laughing
Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
eye hands editors
The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread. Will Carleton
eye two design
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform. Wilhelm von Humboldt
eye light world
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit. Walter Russell
eye men snow
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand. Walter Savage Landor