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Quotes About Eye

It had to be Death. No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
~ Terry Pratchett
She knew Rollo was trying to intimidate her with the evil eye. Rattle the cop, throw her off balance. He was like too many other assholes she'd known, and his stare was nothing new. Just the last resort of a loser.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
~ Theodore Roethke
I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be. — Theodore Roethke, from "She," Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964)
~ Theodore Roethke
I feel her presence in the common day, In that slow dark that widens every eye. She moves as water moves, and comes to me, Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be. from "She
~ Theodore Roethke
With aqueous indifference, the camera lifted its eye.
~ Karen Russell
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
~ Karl Georg Bchner
En cherchant l'oeil de Dieu, je n'ai vu qu'un orbite Vaste, noir et sans fond...
~ Gerard de Nerval
Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.
~ Garry Wills
Schiller had no illusions about the scale of his own achievement, but he had tried, through art, to bring a little more beauty, a little more tolerance, a little more coherence into the world, and now he felt he had earned the right to look back at the statue with an unembarrassed eye.
~ Brian Morton
It is never safe to call a church a puppet—no matter how dead, no matter how subservient and temporizing it may appear on the surface. It is called by God's name, it has God's eye upon it, at any moment He may sweep the surface away with the purifying wind of His Spirit. ———
~ Brother Andrew
O dromedário tem o olho do cu mais elegante de todos os animais que conheço, nada tem que ver com a carne rosada e berrante do recto que se vê num cavalo. E produz a mais delicada bosta - uma forma elíptica, muito perfeita, que depressa endurece ao sol. a forma e a textura de uma noz-pecã.
~ Bruce Chatwin
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
~ Bruce Oldfield
Unless, unless, unless--a wisp of a word, ghostly token of altered fate, bleating little iamb of hope, it drifts across my thoughts like a floater in the vitreous humour of an eye. Mere hope.
~ Ian Mcewan
Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.
~ Ilona Andrews
Andrea, in less than twelve hours, Atlanta will be full of demons. They will kill, feed, and release more demons. What emergency is more important than this one? She hesitated. I'm not supposed to disclose this. There's a man. His name is Roland... I almost punched the wall. What is he doing that's so damn crucial? What, is he building another tower? It will fall like all his other ones. Or did his eye finally grow back and he decided to have a battle to celebrate?
~ Ilona Andrews
Hair on the eyebrow droops because of aging, so a groomed eyebrow on a man opens the eye and makes him looks younger.
~ Anastasia Soare
I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.
~ Kenny Rogers
There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
~ John Hillcoat
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
~ William Shakespeare
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
I go in for the eye test, and I don't know about you, but I concentrate like crazy during the eye exam. You don't want to get no 'D' on that thing and end up with these big thick Coke bottle glasses.
~ Brian Regan
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye.
~ Steven Jay Schneider