Quotes on Eyes

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Author: Jack Abbott

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Author: Victoria Abril

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Author: Josef Albers

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Author: Amos Alcott

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

Author: Buzz Aldrin

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Author: Dante Alighieri

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

Author: William Allard

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Author: Aristophanes

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.

Author: Colleen Atwood

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Author: Richard Bach

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

Author: Abu Bakr

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Author: Balthus

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Author: Christine Baranski

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

Author: Richard Barham

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Author: Martha Beck

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

Author: Max Beerbohm

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Author: Ruth Benedict

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Author: Warren Bennis

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Author: Michael Berryman

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

Author: Jane Birkin

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Author: Corbin Bleu

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

Author: Corbin Bleu

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

Author: Felix Bloch

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Author: Jim Bolger

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

Author: Marlon Brando

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

Author: Eva Braun

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Author: John Brown

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

Author: William Bryant

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

Author: Robert Buchanan

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Author: Jeff Buckley

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

Author: William Burroughs

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

Author: James Caan

I will know him by his eyes.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

Author: Claudia Cardinale

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Author: Benjamin Cardozo

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Author: Jim Carrey

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Author: Cato

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Author: Adelbert Chamisso

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Author: William Channing

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

Author: Leslie Charteris

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Author: Malcolm Chazal

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

Author: John Cleveland

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Author: Mary Coleridge

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

Author: Jimmy Connors

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Author: Charles Cooley

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Author: Charles Cooley

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.

Author: Ben Crenshaw

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Author: Kieran Culkin

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

Author: Cat Deeley

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Author: Daniel Defoe

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Author: Frank Deford

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Author: Ellen DeGeneres

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Author: Charles Dickens

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Author: Denis Diderot

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Author: Alfred Doblin

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Author: Marjory Douglas

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Author: Karen Duffy

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Author: Raoul Dufy

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Author: Edward Dyer

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

Author: Sheena Easton

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Author: Roger Ebert

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Author: Leon Edel

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Author: Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Author: Albert Einstein

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Author: Paul Eluard

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Author: Julius Erving

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

Author: Linda Evans

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Author: Walker Evans

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

Author: Carly Fiorina

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

Author: Robert Fortune

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

Author: John Galsworthy

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Author: Paul Gauguin

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Author: Jean Genet

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Author: Johann Goethe

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

Author: Mike Gordon

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Author: Thomas Gray

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Author: Jeff Greenfield

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

Author: Joel Gretsch

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Author: Edvard Grieg

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Author: Gene Hackman

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Author: Joseph Hall

Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.

Author: Corey Hart

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

Author: Rutger Hauer

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Author: Anna Held

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

Author: Mark Helprin

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Author: Heraclitus

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Author: George Herbert

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Author: George Herbert

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

Author: Arthur Herzog

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Author: Thomas Higginson

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Author: Ian Holm

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

Author: Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Author: Victor Hugo

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

Author: Brett Hull

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

Author: William Hurt

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Author: Mahalia Jackson

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

Author: Jam Jay

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

Author: Bob Kane

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

Author: Hamid Karzai

I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

Author: Willie Keeler

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Author: Rockwell Kent

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

Author: Deborah Kerr

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

Author: Alicia Keys

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.

Author: Leonid Kuchma

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Author: Dorothea Lange

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Author: Dorthea Lange

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Author: Frederick Leboyer

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Author: Stanislaw Lec

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Author: Gotthold Lessing

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Author: C. Lewis

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

Author: Joe Lieberman

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Author: Richard Linklater

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

Author: Sophia Loren

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Author: Lawrence Lovasik

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Author: Clare Luce

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Author: John Lyly

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

Author: Norman MacCaig

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

Author: Peter Malkin

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Author: Groucho Marx

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Author: W. Maugham

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Author: Bryant McGill

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

Author: Johnny Mercer

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Author: Lennart Meri

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Author: Lorne Michaels

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Author: Grandma Moses

I just close my eyes and think of Placido Domingo.

Author: Birgit Nilsson

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

Author: Phillip Noyce

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

Author: Conor Oberst

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Author: Laurence Olivier

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Author: George Orwell

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Author: Marie Osmond

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Author: Rudolf Otto

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

Author: Major Owens

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Author: Paracelsus

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Author: Blaise Pascal

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Author: Saint Patrick

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Author: Octavio Paz

There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.

Author: George Peppard

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Author: Richard Perle

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Author: Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Author: Pablo Picasso

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Author: Pablo Picasso