Eye Quotes

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

~ Lewis Black

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

~ Louis Sullivan

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

~ Louis Kahn

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

~ Annabelle Selldorf

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

~ Bernard Tschumi

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

~ Miuccia Prada

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

~ Martin Luther King

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

~ Lois Greenfield

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

~ Orson Welles

I miss the newness of Magic Eye posters, which really are amazing.

~ Jay Asher

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

~ Sara Paxton

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

~ Keith Haring

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

~ Samuel Adams

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

~ Thomas Carlyle

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

~ Aaliyah

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

~ John Mcenroe

Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.

~ Hozier

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

~ Meister Eckhart

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

~ Saint Basil

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

~ Will Durant

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

~ Nikola Tesla

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

~ Clifton Fadiman

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

~ Chaz Bono

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

~ Sherrod Brown

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

~ Jesus Christ

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Laurence J. Peter

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

~ Saint Basil

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

~ Lee Atwater

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

~ James Thomson

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

~ Edmund Spenser

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

~ Dove Cameron

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

~ Gerard Butler

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

~ Tilda Swinton

Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

~ Ross Lovegrove

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

~ Kirsten Dunst

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

~ William Shakespeare