eyes quotes

• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand) [beauty/eyes/moment/soul & body]
• 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. (William Maugham) [eyes]
• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. (Charles Dickens) [eyes]
• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. (Theodore Roosevelt) [eyes]
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake) [tears/joy/eyes/thing]
• Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. (Thomas Gray) [light/eyes]
• I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Laurence Olivier) [take/life/eyes]
• I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. (Sophia Loren) [ugly/strange/eyes]
• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. (James Baldwin) [more/eyes/eyes/human]
• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. (James Baldwin) [people/eyes/reality/destruction]
• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. (Jean Baudrillard) [nice/eyes/television]
• Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. (Jean Baudrillard) [eyes/film/life]
• If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. (Sandra Bernhard) [eyes]
• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. (William Blake) [eyes/more/sun/money]
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake) [tears/joy/eyes/thing]
• I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. (William Blake) [thing/eyes/more/sun]
• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ( Napoleon I) [eyes]
• I have eyes like those of a dead pig. (Marlon Brando) [eyes]
• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? (Elias Canetti) [decision/people/eyes]
• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. (Thomas Carlyle) [eyes]
• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. (Thomas Carlyle) [god/willpower/eyes]
• No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. (Thomas Carlyle) [ghost/eyes]
• I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. (Thomas Carlyle) [face/eyes/look]
• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. (Miguel De Cervantes) [fear/eyes]
• The eyes those silent tongues of love. (Miguel De Cervantes) [eyes/love]
• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken] (Jackie Chan) [eyes/top/soul & body]
• They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [fight/eyes/look/laughter]
• The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. (Marcus Cicero) [eyes/soul & body]
• Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. (Charles Caleb Colton) [men/eyes/order]
• My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. (Noel Coward) [eyes/more/find/company]
• To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them. (Aleister Crowley) [eyes/god/mankind/find]

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