Quotes about eye
eye sea tree
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow. Wallace Stevens
eye animal fire
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. Wallace Stevens
eye opportunity skills
The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for advances coming out of nowhere, and embrace the new opportunities as they emerge. You need to be able to collaborate with others and build relationships. You need to be able to share ideas, inspire, and motivate. Vivek Wadhwa
eye grace lines
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety. William Hogarth
eye flesh spirit
When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open. Willa Cather
eye air blue
The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky. Willa Cather
eye healing voice
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. Willa Cather
eye player games
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. Warren Buffett
eye yellow orange
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs Vincent Van Gogh
eye white looks
I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something. Vincent Van Gogh
eye weaving figures
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once. Vincent Van Gogh
eye magic looks
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. Vincent Van Gogh
eye people ears
Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun. Vladimir Lenin
eyebrows feet people
It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan. Will Poulter
eye soul looks
The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form. Wayne Dyer
eye blue blood
Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new. Walter Annenberg
eye water gleam
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. Walter de La Mare
eye black-and-white rocks
The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too. Virginia Woolf
eye tragedy married
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. Virginia Woolf
eye ideas wrinkles
One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there? Virginia Woolf
eye littles vivid
But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species. Virginia Woolf
eye men june
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June. Virginia Woolf
eye writing practice
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles. Virginia Woolf
eye mind vain
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes Virginia Woolf
eye imagination earth
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball. William Blake
eye light stronger
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. William Blake
eye heart knows
The eye sees more than the heart knows. William Blake
eye science blow
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright. William Blake
eye men creative
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. William Blake
eye heart secret
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury. William Blake
eye men imagination
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination William Blake
eye shadow criticism
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement. William Blake
eye self whales
The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy. William Blake