She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
~By Kate Chopin ~
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
~By Ansel Adams ~
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
~By Balthus ~
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
~By Raoul Dufy ~
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
~By Bob Marley ~
The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
~By Michael Behe ~
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
~By Philip Pullman ~
I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
~By Allan Dwan ~
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
~By John Cleveland ~
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~By Brian Celio ~
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
~By Harry Chapin ~
I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.
~By Roger Clemens ~
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
~By Raoul Dufy ~
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.
~By Murray Walker ~
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.
~By Herman Gorter ~
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.
~By Robin Roberts ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~By Henry Ford ~
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
~By Douglas Horton ~
When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
~By Chief Joseph ~
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
~By William Hurt ~
I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
~By Kim Hunter ~
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
~By Sophia Loren ~
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
~By William Blake ~
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
~By Lucille Ball ~
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
~By Ryan White ~
Please your eye and plague your heart.
~By William Cobbett ~
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.
~By Thomas Kyd ~
I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.
~By Keir Dullea ~
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
~By Walker Evans ~
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
~By Martin Buber ~
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
~By Robert Smith ~
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
~By Primo Levi ~
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.
~By Roger Staubach ~
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
~By David Soul ~
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.
~By Mike Davidson ~
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
~By Charles Dickens ~
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~By Yves Tanguy ~
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
~By Ronald Harwood ~
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
~By Mark Haddon ~
I will know him by his eyes.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
~By Octavio Paz ~
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
~By Charles Dance ~
The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
~By Frank Deford ~
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
~By Christopher Fry ~
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
~By Frank Pittman ~
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
~By Jesus Christ ~
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.
~By Tara Reid ~
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
~By Albert Pike ~
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
~By Anne Bronte ~
More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
~By William Wilberforce ~
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.
~By John Guare ~
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
~By Robert Herrick ~
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
~By Len Wein ~
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
~By Ezra Pound ~
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
~By Plato ~
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~By David Brainerd ~
I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.
~By Sharon Tate ~
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
~By Rod Serling ~
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