Eye Quotes - page 4

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World. (Buchi Emecheta)
Farewell, unwashed Russia, Land of slaves, land of masters, And you, blue uniforms, And you, people, devoted to them. Perhaps beyond the wall of the Caucasus, I will hide from your pashas, From their all-seeing eye, From their all-hearing ears. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile. View quote
Joseph Joubert
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. View quote
Michelangelo
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. View quote
Dave Barry
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrows eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company. View quote
William Shakespeare
I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. (Federico Fellini)
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. View quote
Walter Scott
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. View quote
Plato
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. View quote
Frank Luntz
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. View quote
Bill Cosby
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. View quote
Brian Selznick
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan. (Dave Ramsey)
I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. View quote
Loren Eiseley
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.' View quote
Shannen Doherty
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark. View quote
Audrey Meadows