There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
~By David Chalmers ~
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
~By James S. Coleman ~
I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
~By Gilbert Hernandez ~
I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
~By Ben Crenshaw ~
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
~By Al Jarreau ~
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
~By Jean Genet ~
I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?
~By Brian Celio ~
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
~By Aristophanes ~
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
~By Ted Rall ~
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
~By Barbara Sher ~
I will know him by his eyes.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
~By Conor Oberst ~
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
The eyes of all people are upon us.
~By John Winthrop ~
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
~By Lynda Barry ~
Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.
~By Christina Rossetti ~
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
~By Heraclitus ~
They're just big in the eyes of the American public.
~By Eric Heiden ~
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
~By Sally Field ~
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
~By Richard Linklater ~
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
~By Paracelsus ~
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
~By Jeff Greenfield ~
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~By William Blake ~
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
~By Babe Ruth ~
The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
~By Donald Berwick ~
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
~By Len Wein ~
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
~By Robert Ryan ~
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 ~
I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.
~By Rex Hunt ~
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
~By W. G. Sebald ~
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
~By Salvador Dali ~
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
~By Robert Browning ~
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.
~By Kyle Schmid ~
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
~By Dorothy Sarnoff ~
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
~By William C. Bryant ~
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
~By Philip Levine ~
When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
~By Bob Kane ~
Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
~By Peter Malkin ~
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
~By Alicia Keys ~
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
~By Mark Rydell ~
When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
~By Bob Mould ~
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
~By Robert Bresson ~
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
~By St. Jerome ~
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 ~
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
~By Todd Solondz ~
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
~By Titus Livius ~
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
~By Stevie Wonder ~
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
~By Victoria Abril ~
Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
~By Loretta Young ~
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
~By William Alexander Henry ~
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~By Shana Alexander ~
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
~By Chief Joseph ~
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
~By Neil Young ~
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
~By Pierre Loti ~
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.
~By William Friedkin ~
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
~By Bram Stoker ~
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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