Eye Quotes - page 10

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph. (Kenneth Clark)
How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast. View quote
Samuel Beckett
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. View quote
Frank Stella
The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. View quote
John Steinbeck
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. View quote
John Steinbeck
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. View quote
Jenna Jameson
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
May she be granted beauty and yet not; Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe; The heart-revealing intimacy; That chooses right, and never find a friend. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. (Edvard Munch)
Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity. View quote
William Blake
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. View quote
Plutarch
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. View quote
Douglas Adams
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in. View quote
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive? View quote
Davey Havok
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain. (Emily Dickinson)
Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. View quote
Francesco Guicciardini
A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. View quote
William Wordsworth