Eyes Quotes

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes open.

Seeing is not always believing.

Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Who closes eyes to dictatorships kneels his eyelids. (Qui ferme les yeux aux dictatures - Agenouille en fait les paupières.)

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.