Eye Quotes

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley

Truth, Long, May

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
Dominic Monaghan

Acting, Film, Face

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson

Two, Sometimes, Knew

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'
Hulk Hogan

Cool, Down, Put

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd

God, Wisdom, Heart

Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
Bear Grylls

Pretty, Off, Show

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.
Eric Liu

American, Often, Public

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page

Free, Needs, Build

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
Charles Schumer

Party, Democratic, Level

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
Geoffrey Rush

Hurt, Read, Muscles

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams

Struggle, Past, Wanted

I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
Fergie

Great, Important, Feeling

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies

Mind, Prepared, Comprehend

When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of 'Project Runway' was in postproduction.
Andy Cohen

Game, Working, Started

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
Travis Barker

Life, Another, Since

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
Orson Scott Card

Training, College, Theatre

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
Padma Lakshmi

Two, Before, Learned

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
Garson Kanin

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
Mia Wasikowska

Put, Once, Public

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz

Society, Nothing, Find

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
John Major

Truth, Tell, Looked

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Dreams, Good, Mind

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
Margot Kidder

Life, Sad, Happy

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
William Wilberforce

Life, Human, Present

There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
Wilbur Smith

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
Wilbur Smith

Smile, Speak, Her

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg

Normal, Beholder

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson

Art, Attitude, Same

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
Rudolf Arnheim

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
William Gibson

Mind, Light, Language

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