Eyes Quotes

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together. No. We're in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that.

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.