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Quotes About Eyes

She looked at Paul's face, his eyes--the inward stare. And she knew where she had seen such a look before: pictured in records of disasters--on the faces of children who experienced starvation or terrible injury. The eyes were like pits, mouth a straight line, cheeks indrawn. It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.
~ Frank Herbert
You will negotiate for me, Mother, with Chani by your side. She has wisdom and sharp eyes. And it is wisely said that no one bargains tougher than a Fremen. She will be looking through the eyes of her love for me and with the thought of her sons to be, what they will need. Listen to her.
~ Frank Herbert
Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks)—these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you until penis was firmly clasped in vagina. He
~ Frank Herbert
Thee old woman was a witch shadow--hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.
~ Frank Herbert
Pain is a function of nerves, Idaho reminded himself. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves. It was an old mentat drill and he completed it in the space of one breath
~ Frank Herbert
Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.
~ Frank McCourt
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
~ Frank O'Hara
The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.
~ Frank O'Hara
Weariness of Men My grandmother said when she was young The grass was so wild and high You couldn't see a man on horseback. In the fields she made out Three barns, Dark and blown down from the weather Like her husbands. She remembers them in the dark, Cursing the beasts, And how they would leave the bed In the morning, The dead grass of their eyes Stacked against her.
~ Frank Stanford
The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?
~ Franz Kafka
I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.
~ Franz Kafka
You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
~ Franz Kafka
I sink into your eyes whenever I'm looking at you
~ Franz Kafka
Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform.
~ Franz Kafka
If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.
~ Roxane Gay
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
~ Peng Liyuan
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
~ Jacki Weaver
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
~ Max Beerbohm
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
~ Olivia Wilde
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
~ James E. Faust
I'm very lucky because my eyes work with almost any hair color. Thanks for the genetics, parents.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.
~ Ali Fazal
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
~ Frida Kahlo
The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
~ Ian Holm