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“When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.”

Looks Eye Expression Bird Staring Tilt

Author:Ted Rall

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.”

Eye Expression Crosses Glasses Legs Swear

Author:Tom Waits

“She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.”

Eye Expression Sigh Garbo Standoffs

Author:Kim Carnes

“Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.”

Eye Expression Died

Author:Elton John

“You're driving with your eyes closed.”

Eye Expression Driving

Author:Don Henley

“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?”

Mind Mean Art Eye Language Black White Expression Return Drawing Accepted Conventions Black And White Conventional Accustomed Translations Obliged Beholder

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"”

Said Reality Eye Names Speak Expression Masters Eternal Concepts His Eyes Mysticism Scholar Transcendent Transient Disarming

Author:Anthony de Mello

“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Men Eye Law Purpose Strong Results Doubt Wife Expression Consequence No Doubt

Author:William Henry Maule

“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”

Eye Literature Simple Forever Expression Victory Despair Hatred Excitement

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”

Years Looks Book Different Eye Church Five Building Expression Years Ago Stones Twenties Intelligent Former Clock Friendly Towers

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.”

Stills Eye Beautiful Imagination Beauty Opinion Expression Ears Mere Senses

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.”

Ifs Humans Eye Lines Expression Depends Painter Variation Countenance

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.”

Men World Soul Eye Moving Expression Messages All Things Window Sight Refuse Rejects Curtains Seeming Eyelids

Author:Alice Meynell

“The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.”

Wells Light Eye Form Girl Common Race Situation Laughing Expression Huge Window Speed Noise Well Being Rome Belly Motor Motorcycle Splitting Neon Belly Laughs

Book:Rome and a Villa

Source: Rome and a Villa

“You can't be beautiful and hate because hate is a corroding disease and affects the way you look. ... You can't hide it - ever. It shows in your eyes. It warps your expression. It affects your character, your personality.”

Way Looks Character Shows Eye Beautiful Hate Expression Personality Disease Warp

Author:Bess Myerson

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

Wells Eye Fall Expression Insulting Loaded Kicking Pistols Blueberries Hissing

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.”

Ifs Mind Character Eye Faces Names Interesting Expression Her Eyes Wrinkles Interesting Characters Inscriptions

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.”

Way Sometimes Hands Eye Lying Wonder Sky Expression Becoming Spread Superiors Cows Arrested Monotony Superior Intelligence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”

Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.”

Eye Faces Choices Voice Expression Tone Eloquence

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.”

Way Believe Littles Important Done Eye Action Faces I Believe Bits Kindness Expression Little Bit Instruments Warm Your Face Greetings Acts Of Kindness Your Smile

Author:Mother Teresa

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.”

Littles Whole Eye Spirit Culture Expression Handful Bulls Epigrams

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.”

“When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.”

Light Eye Faces Speak Heaven Hell Expression Glory Ordinary Shining Heavenly Your Face Light Up Gleam

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?”

People Looks Said Reality Eye Perfect Television Expression Fascinating Trends Narcissism Doing Nothing Reality Television

Book:Espresso Tales

Source: Espresso Tales

“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.”

Source: The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings

“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”

Mean Eye Used Found Vision Possibility Expression Offers Photography Cameras Technique Mediums Artistic Characteristics Visuals Totality

Author:Piet Zwart

“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Subjects Painting Expression Photograph Complaining Hills Landscape Noses Lakes Valleys Chins

Author:John Loengard

“Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!”

Men May Character Body Eye Voice Written Style Expression Clothes Deeds Every Man Tone His Eyes Posture

Author:Napoleon Hill

“No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.”

Looks Sometimes Eye Expression Complexes Combination Steers Slaughterhouses

Author:L. M. Boyd

“You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them.”

Thinking Giving Believe Looks May Mean Real Character Helping Feelings Eye Care Actors Memories Decision Acting Quality Expression Performances Breathing Internals Nonverbal

Author:Larry Moss

“You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.”

Matter Bigs Eye Expression Tall Thick Modesty Masterpiece Freckles Big Eyes

Book:Secret Keeper Girl Mom-Daughter Devos: with Coloring Experience

Source: Secret Keeper Girl Mom-Daughter Devos: with Coloring Experience

“My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Looks Persons Matter Eye Able Father Expression Perception Mirrors No Matter What Feel Good About Yourself Good Person

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.”

People Mind Different Self Eye Voice Wonder Vision Creative Doubt Seeing Expression Personality Mirrors Photograph Casts Pondering Self-doubt Vortex Creative Expression

Author:Keith Murray

“I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind Eye Faces Loses Expression Innocence Your Face Getting Old Getting Older Ingenuity Equilibrium Brightness

Author:Sophia Loren

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.”

Eye Language Expression Tongue Screens Smoke Her Eyes English Language

Book:Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones”

Want Eye Half Liberty Changed Expression Dancing Speed His Eyes Want Me Amusement Hardy

Author:Lisa Kleypas