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Quotes About Eyes

Malcolm rubbed his eyes. 'And my niceness is going to save the world, is it?
~ Tom Holt
And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.
~ Tom Robbins
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
~ Tom Robbins
Now, in the eyes of the stars, men may be no more exalted than beasts, and kingly men no worthier than the wretched.
~ Tom Robbins
There was a purity about him, a blaze in his eyes, that bordered on the charismatic. I also had the sense that hanging out with him would be dangerous: not because he might prove mean, violent, dishonest, or crazier than anybody else I knew, but because he seemed both completely uncompromised and completely uncompromising. As Henry Miller said of Rimbaud, he was "like a man who discovered electricity but knew absolutely nothing about insulation.
~ Tom Robbins
They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between.
~ Toni Morrison
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.
~ Toni Morrison
Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes dropped. The someone had no face, no form, no voice, no odour. He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest.
~ Toni Morrison
Dear God... I, I have caused a miracle. I gave her the eyes. I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes. Cobalt blue. A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. No one else will see her blue eyes. But she will. And she will live happily ever after.
~ Toni Morrison
There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.
~ Toni Morrison
The doctor raised the gun and pointed it at what in his fear ought to have been flaring nostrils, foaming lips, and the red-rimmed eyes of a savage. Instead he saw the quiet, even serene, face of a man not to be fooled with.
~ Toni Morrison
Wat hij deed (...) stanste het glanzende ijzer uit Sethes ogen, zodat er twee putten overbleven die de gloed van het vuur niet weerkaatsten.
~ Toni Morrison
The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane.
~ Toni Morrison
I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.
~ Toni Morrison
Roy Orbison had damaged his eyes and started wearing the dark glasses that became his trademark.
~ Tony Bramwell
he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I
~ Tracy Chevalier
I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut," she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.
~ Kerstin Gier
Ojos de rana, piel de serpiente que el amor no siente
~ Kerstin Gier
Meet me tonight in Dreamland Where love's sweet roses bloom Come with the lovelight gleaming In your dear eyes of blue Meet me in Dreamland Sweet dreamy Dreamland There let my dreams come true They
~ Kevin Baker
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Earth and sun is father like son, the enthusiasm in your eyes.
~ King Jehovah Hohenzollern
Kerrigan?" she choked, cupping his face in both of her hands. "Come back to me." Suddenly, he drew a deep breath before he opened his eyes to look up at her. Instead of their normal black hue, they were a bright, crystal blue—the same color they had been when he was human.
~ Kinley MacGregor
She glanced up from his lips to those dark eyes that smoldered with his fire. She remembered now what they had looked like as she'd seen him before Morgen had entered his world. "Your eyes used to be blue." "That was a long time ago." -Seren to Kerrigan
~ Kinley MacGregor