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Quotes About Eyes

The little pool was lighted now, the same glowing green-or so I imagined-as the eyes of the cats who slept in the shadows around it.
~ Armistead Maupin
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." The man sprang from
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In certi momenti gli occhi di una donna si riempiono di una luce assai più eloquente di un fiume di parole.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing in this house moves until you look away, and then you just catch something from the corner of your eye.
~ Shirley Jackson
They are the children of the strangers,I told her. They have no faces. They have eyes. Pretend they are birds. They cant see us. They don't know it yet. they don't want to believe it, but they wont ever see us again.
~ Shirley Jackson
Someday, she said evilly, rubbing her hands against her eyes, I am going to get my eyes open all the time and then I will eat you and Lizzie both.
~ Shirley Jackson
They are the children of the strangers, I told her. They have no faces. They have eyes. Pretend they are birds.
~ Shirley Jackson
Un giorno» ribatté con voce maligna, sfregandosi gli occhi con le dita «riuscirò a stare con gli occhi aperti tutto il tempo e vi mangerò tutti e due, te e Lizzie»
~ Shirley Jackson
It all seemed to happen at once. Jason threw his sweater toward me. It flew into my face like a blanket in the wind. I pulled it away from my eyes to see the Hurricane right winger move in on the puck and sweep past Jason.
~ Sigmund Brouwer
Are you a political prisoner, Dooley? Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter who'd asked her this. Yes, she said. And so are you.
~ Sigrid Nunez
I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them. I
~ Silas House
There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull
~ Sinclair Lewis
WHEN the windshield was closed it became so filmed with rain that Claire fancied she was piloting a drowned car in dim spaces under the sea. When it was open, drops jabbed into her eyes and chilled her cheeks. She was excited and thoroughly miserable.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.
~ Sophie Jordan
He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.
~ Sophie Jordan
Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.
~ Sophie Kinsella
However well we got to know each other, there was always a magic. A mystery. We could lie in bed looking silently at each other, not needing to speak. Joe's eyes were never boring. He was never boring.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Oedipus: (looking up at the sun) 'LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT never again flood these eyes with your white radiance, oh gods my eyes.
~ Sophocles