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Eye Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.…
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual…
- Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
- Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
- And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad"…
- The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila