Eye Quotes - Page 13

• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Violet, Vibrations, Seven

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• It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imperfect Things, Poetry, Joy

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 4 Jan. 1922

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• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Television Watching

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• All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.

  Woody Allen

  Car, Driving, Life Is

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• The artist has only to trust his eyes.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, His Eyes

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Firsts, Speak

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• A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Wool, Realizing

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• Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

  Matthew Arnold

  Whales, Sailing, World

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 43

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• Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Wise, Wisdom, New Horizons

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• Close your eyes and look inside,
  A mirror shines within;
  To find where you are going,
  First see where you have been.

  Charles Ghigna

  Mirrors, Shining, Looks

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• The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.

  Michael Tierra

  Healing, Artist, Expression

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• Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Heaven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.65

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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

  Brooke Westcott

  Hero, Men, Coward

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• Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

  Joseph Butler

  Doubt, No Doubt

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

  Douglas Sirk

  Cameras, Doe, Critics

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• All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Done, Deeds

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• Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

  Mencius

  Character, Men, Looks

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.182

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• If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

  Quintilian

  Work, Mind, Ears

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• The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mirrors, Opposites, Use

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

  Janis Joplin

  Needs, Looks, Audience

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• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  Danny Pino

  Dad, Reality, Order

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• An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Unanswered Questions, Fine, Companion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.205, Penguin

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• Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

  Mariah Carey

  Letting Go, Dream, Fall

  Song: Can't Let Go, Album: Emotions, 1991

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• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Country, School, Europe

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