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"Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye."
"When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning."
"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."
"It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set."
"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."
"The eye altering, alters all."
"If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made."
"For she had eyes and chose me."
"Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee."
"That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude."
"As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions."
"It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop."
"The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable."
"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
"The health of the eye demands a horizon."
"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
"The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon"
"You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes."
"In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual"
