Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

I see through my eyes, not with them.

William Blake

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

William Blake

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Wentworth Miller

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

Werner Herzog

Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

Wayne Rogers

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Wayne White

No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, "Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself." There's always someone like that.

Walker Evans

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Wallace Shawn

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

Walker Percy

I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

Wallace Stevens

The mind is smaller than the eye.

Wallace Stevens

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

Samuel Richardson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Beckett

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

Samuel Beckett

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

Samuel Beckett

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Samuel Beckett

The Unnamable,1954... How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Samuel L. Jackson

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

Samuel Beckett

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Samuel Beckett

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

Samuel Beckett

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

Samuel Beckett

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Salvador Dali

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

Salman Rushdie

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Salman Rushdie

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Ryan White

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

Ryan Seacrest

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Rudy Rucker

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

Rudolf Steiner

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

Josiah Royce

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.