Quotes about eye
eye criticism sides
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. Walter Savage Landor
eye heart hands
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. Walter Scott
eye exercise ideas
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
eye heart looks
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
eye heart rocks
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
eyelashes long important
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
eye fighting men
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
eye looks tradition
By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Walter F. Mondale
eye waiting election
We will keep a close eye on what is happening and wait for the election results and after that we will be ready to work with any Administration given that it wants to work with us. Vladimir Putin
eye small-rooms broken
Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns. William Morris
eye israel interest
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. Yitzhak Rabin
eye dark night
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North) Yevgeny Zamyatin
eye cutting healthy
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
eye effort joy
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. Winston Churchill
eye looks censorship
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.
eye games two
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.
eye ideas judgement
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
eye advice hitting
The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all. Willie Keeler
eye people giants
The catch off Bobby Morgan (a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes Willie Mays
eye writing brain
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. William Zinsser
eye ems stories
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes. William Safire
eye people messages
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' William S. Burroughs
eye sake
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
eye men world
And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes. William Martin
eye soul closing
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. William Law
eye men light
Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
eye knowing want-something
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. Virginia Woolf
eye glasses mirrors
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.
eye strange property
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
eye green green-leaves
Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
eye men forever
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning. Woodrow Wilson
eye machines rays
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists Woody Allen
eye car driving
All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.