Quotes about eye
eye men noses
What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose. Arthur Eddington
eye light darkness
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness. Arthur Golden
eye thinking two
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
eye matter way
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
eye artist deep-water
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
eye dark compassion
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. Arthur Conan Doyle
eye thinking three
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.
eye writing needs
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. Arthur Brisbane
eye police watches
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. Anton Chekhov
eye looks life-is
You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
eye successful judging
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
eye thinking sight
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.
eye drawing sketching
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. Balthus
eye deception ears
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. Baltasar Gracian
eye men champion
I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life. Austin Grossman
eye sea secret
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. Arundhati Roy
eye people mind
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. Anthony Trollope
eye light house
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
eye dragons drawing
All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon Diane Duane
eye spiders spots
I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders. Diana Wynne Jones
eye thinking years
I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.
eye skulls onions
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.
eye sight hands
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. ... Prey, on the other hand, have eyes at the sides of their heads, because what they really need is peripheral vision, so they can tell when something is sneaking up behind them. Something like us. Diane Ackerman
eye special causes
Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. Desiderius Erasmus
eye religion atheism
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
eye rocks self
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
eye ears
I open my eyes and my ears, and that's why I work. Demian Bichir
eye cry catching
Skys are crying, I am watching, catching teardrops in my eyes. Demi Lovato
eyebrows perfect terrible
Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows. Demetri Martin
eye looks idiot
A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.
eye people shapes
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape. Dean Koontz
eye reflection vanity
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
eye hands wipe
It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands. Daniel H. Wilson