Top 615 Eye Quotes

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in ‘American History X,’ yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

I was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award 19 times before I won. The first nine years, I heard someone else’s name called; after that – I think it was a protective thing – I didn’t hear whose name was called, but nobody was making eye contact with me, so I knew that it wasn’t mine.

When I was working at Trio, I was pitched ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ and I knew, whoever gets this, this is a game changer. When I started at Bravo in 2005, it was a hit, and Season 1 of ‘Project Runway’ was in postproduction.

As a grown adult, if you can’t look a woman or look a man in the eye and say, ‘I have serious feelings for you’ and instead you have to say, ‘Do you like me? Check yes or no,’ like we’re in grade school, that to me is a red flag of maturity as far as a relationship goes.

They talk about Amen Corner but there’s so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one’s own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

It’s an ear job, not an eye job.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal!

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

I’ve always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn’t look her in the eye.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I’ve had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It’s part and parcel of the game, really.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

No man’s brain is so dull, and no man’s eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn’t follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn’t in the public eye. I thought, ‘I’m young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that’s my prerogative.’

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I’ve grown up in the public eye, and every decision I’ve made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she’s about 5 feet – and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.

Guys just don’t care. We don’t take the time to plan behind each other’s back. We just say, If you don’t like me, screw you’. If a guy doesn’t like you, you know because you have a black eye.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.

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

I don’t like to look a man in the eye.

I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I’m going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it’s best avoided at all costs I think.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled over so many times for playing ‘Les Mis’ too loud.

I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.

I’ve always had an eye for nature, but it’s the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don’t want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

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.

We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you’re making those connections with your audience then they’re going to go right along with it.

I can’t even talk to someone and make eye contact.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it’s hard, because everybody has style. You can’t help it.

If you’re writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you’re reading a poem that’s written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you’re not going to see the thing whole in the song. You’re going to hear it in series, and you can’t skip back.

When you’re used to being in the public eye, if you’ve got a disease, you’ve got to own up to it. It’s about being about it, not running from it.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

People do the eye test and underestimate me, so I do play with a chip on my shoulder.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.