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Quotes About Eye

I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.
~ Donna Strickland
No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.
~ Skip Bayless
poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room
~ Nikki Giovanni
the eye is the most wonderful. It is the most precious, the most indispensable of our perceptive or directive organs, it is the great gateway through which all knowledge enters the mind. Of all our organs, it is the one, which is in the most intimate relation with that which we call intellect. So intimate is this relation, that it is often said, the very soul shows itself in the eye.
~ Nikola Tesla
What caught Jamal's eye was a signed sepia-tone photograph of Emma Goldman mounted on a small bejeweled easel.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The girl's vulgarities reminded Cora of the plantation and the stream of oaths delivered by the hands when master's eye was not on them. The small rebellion of servants everywhere.
~ Colson Whitehead
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
~ Virginia Woolf
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
puzzling that such imitations always pander so exclusively to the eye instead of also copying the damp fat feel of live petal and leaf.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Her eye was drawn to a miniature version of Esskay, a prancing greyhound, a true gray one, whereas Esskay was black with a patch of white at her breast.
~ Laura Lippman
Your precious dirty underpants and scores of blades are untouched by me. But I'm not thick. I can actually see something dangerous and not poke myself in the eye with it.
~ Lauren Dane
Humanity has the power of imagination, the quwwat al-khal, as does the Omniconscious Unicity. When the Omniconscious Unicity uses this power, worlds are created. When humanity uses this power, the Omniconscious Unicity is created. In our eye, the Omniconscious Unicity sees Its eye.
~ Laurence Galian
By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.
~ Chantel Acevedo
He had that smile on his round, craggy face you get when you squint at the sun. He had muscle deterioration in his face that gave him a lazy eye. If you didn't know him you would think he was blinking or drinking. With his good eye he looked through his wide glasses into my blue eyes. Russell
~ Charles Brandt
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
~ Charles Cooley
Seen from above, the canopy of oak and make and pine is pierced by the pond, which looks back at you like some green eye, knowing and ancient. The air above the pond dives into clefts of coolness, then rises up at the warmth of the margins. Down the path, filigrees of blackflies and mosquitos dance in the heat waves given off by men and women and their domestic fires. Joyous bats dart about.
~ Grace Dane Mazur
At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of her water table. Rice could have been planted at that instant on the terraces of her flesh and sprouted in strength and beauty in the floods that overwhelmed her from that moment on through all the afternoon.
~ Grace Paley
Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war.
~ Graham McNamee
The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel through time, reappear days or months or years after its actually occurrence. Every second of our existence is alive with possibility, but we don't see it until we hit rewind, until we freeze the frame. It is sad that so many things, all suffused with meaning, escape the unaided eye.
~ Greg Bottoms
Wotan leaned forward and light from the dim lamp fell on his face. Travers saw his bare eye socket, the skin stretched over the hole.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Franz Delitzsch, who put it most memorably when he wrote in 1878 that "we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.
~ Guy Deutscher
Three things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)