Eye Quotes

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo

Eyes, Keep, Hand

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant

Knowledge, Soul, Become

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
J. K. Rowling

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Mind, Light, Shine

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve

Fool, Hard, Find

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
Steven Spielberg

Time, Help, Hard

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy

Pain, Both, Tongue

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge, Person, Another

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
Dave Barry

Age, Sex, Social

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
Doug Coupland

Making, While, Clown

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Theodor Adorno

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley

Fun, Keep, Growing

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
Alanis Morissette

Power, Society, Someone

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Live, Heart, Lost

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Christopher Hitchens

True, Matter, Taste

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
Jerry Saltz

Power, Used, Found

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Nature, Truth, Light

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis Morissette

Someone, Enjoy, Living

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis Morissette

Women, Feeling, Talk

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
Alanis Morissette

Great, Famous, Matter

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Margaret Atwood

Blindness, Leads

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Marilyn vos Savant

Food, Before, Appealing

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor

Reality, Looking, Straight

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Pam Brown

Best, Cannot, She

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

Time, Rather, Appearance

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser

Great, Sunshine, Made

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred Hitchcock

Mind, Blessed, Winning

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Walter Scott

Sweet, Coming, Mark

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

Ignorance, Color, Object

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
Miyamoto Musashi

Cannot, Seen, Perceive

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