Eye Quotes - page 5

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. (Fritz Kreisler)
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. View quote
Galen Rowell
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference. View quote
Mitchell Reiss
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. View quote
Veronica Lake
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends. View quote
Charlie Huston
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I have gone into the waste lonely places Behind the eye. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it. View quote
Louis Agassiz
I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. View quote
Thomas Fuller
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. View quote
Salma Hayek
Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken. View quote
Parmenides
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. View quote
Kinky Friedman
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical." View quote
Herbert Butterfield
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. View quote
Thomas Campbell
As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear. View quote
Robert Southwell
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. View quote
John Herschel
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory. View quote
Alexander Suvorov