To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.
Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry!
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.
And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty. ' We must, as C. S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.
Now the entire world has its eyes on China.
Shut up," Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. "I don't think you're stupid. " He closed his eyes "I think you're the smartest person I know. And the kindest. And. . . " he swallowed, opening his eyes to look directly at her - "the most beautiful.
[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.