Eye Quotes

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

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

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

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.

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

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

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.

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.'

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

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

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

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