Source: Pebble in the Sky
Quotes about eye
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Michel De Montaigne
(1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Karen Rose
(1964) American writer
Source: Did You Miss Me?
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.”
Source: The Broom of the System
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
Jeanne Birdsall
(1951) American children's writer
Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Martin Buber
book
I and Thou
I and Thou (1923)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
(1944) American academic
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
We Wear The Mask, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Context: We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
L.J. Smith
(1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 2
“Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.”
Ilona Andrews
American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
Source: A Walk to Remember
“You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”
Karen Marie Moning
(1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
“She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892–1950) American poet
Source: The Selected Poetry
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”
Sören Kierkegaard
(1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: The Brief History of the Dead
“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”
Wilfred Owen
(1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
Source: The Poems Of Wilfred Owen
She Walks in Beauty http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-SWB42.htm, st. 1. The subject of these lines was Mrs. R. Wilmot.—Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7.
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
Richard Dawkins
(1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html:
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once.
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Gertrude Stein
(1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
Kresley Cole
American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
Source: Blood Bound
“Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes." -Beth”
Jessica Bird
(1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Avenged
Source: Clockwork Princess
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
25 May 1843
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Variant: The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
“Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.”
Paulo Coelho
(1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”
Victor Hugo
(1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Ellen DeGeneres
(1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant translations: The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
As quoted in After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration (1981) by Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart, p. 179
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
As quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.
“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”
Hugh Laurie
(1959) British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director
Generation X (1991)
Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture