logo

Quotes About Eye

For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
~ Frank McCourt
The correspondence on this subject brings one again and again to the conclusion that you're united by an all but sacramental indissoluble marriage (...) to your husband, and I by a similar marriage to - I don't know whom, but the eye of this terrible wife often lies on me, I feel it.
~ Franz Kafka
how much harmful ridiculous self-confidence arises while reading old things with an eye to publication.
~ Franz Kafka
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
~ Norman Mailer
Immediately surrounding the tranquil eye is the most violent part of the hurricane: the eye wall. The most intense wind speeds at the surface are found there.
~ Ginger Zee
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
~ J. K. Simmons
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
~ Carl Weathers
'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.
~ Laz Alonso
The great wooden doors screamed open on their pivots - yet not so loudly did they scream as the man who lay with one of the pivots turning in his eye as punishment for the evil he had done upon earth.
~ Roger Lancelyn Green
L'occhio era cupo, cosa che costituisce sempre una buona base per l'allegria.
~ Romain Gary
I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.
~ Ron Jeffries
The war saved my life. I don't know what I would have done without it. Now I should have the chance to be a decent human being, for I'm standing eye to eye with death.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ambition, since it is an eagle, cracked the egg on that occasion, and unveiled the bright, penetrating eye inside.
~ Machado de Assis
not one of them had ever imagined, or could believe, that it might be possible to look at the world through the eye of a storm.
~ Amitav Ghosh
The mind fools the eye. The eye makes us fools.
~ Amy Tan
ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues
~ Samuel Johnson
They passed the hall, that echoes still, Pass as lightly as you will. The brands were flat, the brands were dying, Amid their own white ashes lying; But when the lady passed, there came A tongue of light, a fit of flame; And Christabel saw the lady's eye, And nothing else saw she thereby
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is an ancyant Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three: 'By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye Now wherefore stoppest me?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The light shifts around the dais to the scratching of the chalk on the page, each line careful, considered, the result of a singular communion between the eye and the hand.
~ Sarah Dunant
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
~ Saul Bellow
You should never take financial advice from cartoonists, but let me tell you one thing that feels safe to share: If the CEO of a publicly traded company is routinely described as having a "reality distortion field"—as was the case with Steve Jobs—keep an eye on that company.
~ Scott Adams