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Quotes About Eyes

And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar.
~ Sarah Waters
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.
~ Sarah Waters
The book of Revelation is for modern-day disciples who have eyes to see the power of the empire in our world and in our churches and in our lives and yours.
~ Scot McKnight
level than observing democratic institutions, it is Jesus' foreignness to sin that permits him to have a perfect conviction of the unique tragedy of our sinfulness. Since Jesus has perfectly clear eyes to see the tragedy of sin, his confession is utterly true.
~ Scot McKnight
bonds are formed, death with the dead, those with no hope, the despair written in their eyes selling bit & pieces of shit called food for an extra sheet to put over their shivering bodies
~ Scott C. Holstad
I look at the world like frost in a windowpane, confused, unseeing, and I wait for a solution which will never come. I see the world through eyes glazed over, searching for relief from the ungodly pain. Fuck the stigma. I just want normalcy.
~ Scott C. Holstad
It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. I was comfortable, and you dared to move, those jade eyes said. For that you must die.
~ Scott Lynch
Calo had dark liquor-colored skin and hair like an inky slice of night; the tautness of the flesh around his dark eyes was broken only by a fine network of laugh-lines (though anyone who knew the Sanza twins would more readily describe them as smirk-lines). An improbably sharp and hooked nose preceded his good looks like a dagger held at guard position.
~ Scott Lynch
Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.
~ Scott Lynch
Dogs watch more TV now than they did before because of flat screen televisions which flicker at a rate that a dog's eyes are actually able to process.
~ Scott Matthews
There are actually some women in the world with four color receptor cells in their eyes, which can allow them to see 100 million colors. To put that into perspective for you, a typical human only has three color receptors and can only see about one million colors.
~ Scott Matthews
Q: What has eight eyes and eight legs? A: Eight pirates.
~ Scott McNeely
the crows turned, and its eyes flashed with fire. A blood-chilling caw cracked the brittle air. Rachel slid her machete from its canvas sheath, but the crow veered wildly and then rejoined the broken formation heading south toward the distant city of mutants. DeVontay Jones chuckled
~ Scott Nicholson
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
~ Scott O'Dell
For a long time I called it Otter as I had called Rontu, Dog. Then I decided to give the otter a name. The name was Mon-a-nee, which means Little Boy with Large Eyes.
~ Scott O'Dell
a baleful light, flame more than light, flared from his eyes.
~ Seamus Heaney
I'm always in control,' she said with the hint of a smile. 'Even when I'm not.' 'What do you mean?' Eric asked. 'The submissive has all the power,' Almira said. 'It's all about consent. I'm only talking to you right now because I want to; ergo, I'm the one in control, even though you're asking the questions. And right now, you're not even thinking about how to profile me. My eyes are up here.
~ Sean Campbell
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
~ Markus Zusak, Underdog
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
~ Abigail Adams
I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
~ Alber Elbaz
Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
~ Stephen King
It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.
~ Mark Twain