Eye Quotes

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace

Through, Learn, Makes

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Vidal Sassoon

Work, Human, Another

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

Life, Great, Beautiful

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace

Why, Soul, Year

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Martha Beck

Beauty, Beautiful, Mind

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

Lazy, Bored, Unexpected

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
Paul Simon

Heart, Real, Fashion

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Legal, Game, Person

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Patience, Joy, Soul

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace

Public, Kept, Literary

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Thomas Fuller

Among, Prince, None

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. Kissinger

God, Blessed, Destiny

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Lydia Lunch

Life, Time, Mind

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Stars, Maybe

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
Lewis Black

Morning, Nothing, Learn

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Anton Chekhov

Good, God, Successful

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

Thinking, Become, Off

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
James Hetfield

Fun, Someone, Games

The eye is the notebook of the poet.
James Russell Lowell

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

True, Rather, Minds

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
Talib Kweli

Teacher, Different, Whatever

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
Alfred A. Montapert

God, Happy, True

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

Good, Mind, Feeling

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley

Training, Child, Plan

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthur

Time, Death, Old

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Paul Cezanne

Mind, Two, Painter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter

Beauty, Truth, Contact

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim

Beautiful, Wise, Woman

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte

Soul, Often, Truthful

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
Phil McGraw

Time, Teacher, Ask

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