Eye Quotes

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

~ Raymond Arroyo

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

~ Horace

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.

~ Craig Brown

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

~ Martha Beck

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

~ Kinky Friedman

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Oliver Platt

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.

~ Stephen King

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Helena Christensen

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.

~ Salma Hayek

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

~ George Sand

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

~ Said Nursi

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

~ Lew Wallace

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

~ Isabella Bird

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

~ Joseph Joubert

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

~ Paul Gauguin

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

~ John Adams

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

~ Sam Houston

It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

~ Dylan Penn

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.

~ Nick Harkaway

Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

~ Gabby Douglas

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

~ Thomas Fuller

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

~ Judd Nelson

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

~ David Byrne

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

~ David Byrne

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

~ Jack Kerouac

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

~ Mary-Kate Olsen

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

~ Lord Acton

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

~ Samuel Lover

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, it's better than a poke in the eye.

~ Douglas Horton

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

~ Bayard Taylor

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

~ Louis Macneice

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

~ Donald Hall

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.

~ J. Milton Hayes

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

~ Edward Weston

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

~ Alanis Morissette

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

~ Chris Bell