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“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Made Eye Used Wonder Shots Red Flying Used To Be Planes Therapy Pauses Linked Flyers Fear Of Flying Red Eye

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.”

Knows Doe Eye Heaven Grief Hell Cold Snow Release Flames Streams Melting Liquid Death Grief Melting Snow

Author:Kiersten White

“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with a foundation of real knowledge and removing its former preconceptions as though removing scales from eyes, as happened in the case of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:18). For an understanding of Scripture that does not go beyond the literal meaning, and a view of the sensible world that relies exclusively on sense perception, are indeed scales, blinding the soul's visionary faculty and preventing access to the pure Logos of truth.”

“Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.”

World Trying Looks Doe Important Eye Age Imagination Taught Huge Grandchildren

Author:Richard Lugar

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.”

Ifs Men World Doe Use Eye Beautiful Sun Doors This World Perception All Things Infinite Filled Paint Proportion Bags Worn Grapes Vines Misers Guinea Caverns Chinks Doors Of Perception

Author:William Blake

“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.”

Doe Seems Eye Interest Risk Reader Photography Importance Independent Photographer Photograph Statements Minorities Flats Irrelevant Misunderstood

Author:Walker Evans

“I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.”

People Thinking Men Wells Doe Eye Stage He Man Safe Loud Applause Discretion Relish Vehement

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.”

Ifs Love Feels Doe Eye Christian Suffering Lord Love You And Love Saint Humble Sweetness His Love Our Lord Catholic Saint

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.”

“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”

Doe Sometimes Light Eye Pain Pleasure Blind Dawn Squares Pale Blindness Egotism Filters Here I Am Good God

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.”

Ifs Way Doe Eye Choices Understanding Failing Subjects Mankind Creation Painting Poet Ears Satisfaction Wide Painter

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”

Doe Hands Eye Artist Records Painting Gestures Linear Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Graphs

Author:Roger Fry

“There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.”

People Men Doe Done Eye Quality Fire Highest Paint Painter Lit Getting Old

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.”

Mind Kind Doe Seems Eye Desire Speak Fire Lips Cheeks Modest Cupid Blushing

Author:James Harrington

“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.”

Thinking Men Doe Sometimes Eye Force Taste Regard Notes Critics Destroyed Sickness Honey Inferiors Sour Diseased

Author:Saint Basil

“The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.”

Way Doe Helping Dream Motivational Eye Walks Behinds Leader Fronts Shoes Followers Dreams Come True Whips Banner Through The Eyes

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.”

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”

“ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.”

People Doe Eye Process Planets Taste Hearing Senses Als Cognitive

Author:Steve Gleason

“All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that does cartwheels in yogurt commercials. I wanna be the cartoon character in that antidepressant ad who has, like, little lines under her eyes, and the divot in the middle of the pill is the pill’s mouth... have you seen this ad? It’s very good. It’s for Abilify, which is not a word.”

People Knows Needs Littles Doe Character Eye Fun Lines Middle Mouths Very Good Silly Ads Her Eyes Cartoon Pills Yogurt Antidepressants Cartoon Character Cartwheels

Author:Julie Klausner

“The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.”

Men Humans Mean Doe Eye Earth Faces Left Blue Sensations Human Eyes

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”

Ifs Giving Doe Light Eye Artist Shadow Add Drawing Portraiture Vividness Plasticity

Author:John French Sloan

“How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye-- The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.”

Love Doe Eye Speak Parent Succeed Prove Cheeks Sigh

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.”

Knows Men Doe Eye Able Laughing Wise Subjects Exercise Sacred Wit Offended Solemn Commonplace

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average businessman does, for no businessman who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher.”

Ifs Doe Philosophy Eye Teach Function Average Philosopher Fifty Retiring Businessman

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”

Doe Hands Eye Moving Grows Process Progress Pages Roots Defined

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.”

Littles Doe Eye White Moral Clear Dog Disease Teeth Tails Foxes Orange Puppy Sharks Psychopath Puppy Dog

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.”

Men World Littles Doe Real Eye Left Sides Party Cases Crime Duty Regard Hated Consistency Inconsistency

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.”

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.”

Littles Doe Eye Ears Opera Absurdity Imaginative

Author:George Richard Marek

“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.”

“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”

Feels Humans Doe Enough Eye Strong Grief Emotion Brain Risk Thousand Ten Paper Determination Add Release Zero Funeral Human Brain Neurotransmitters

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

“Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?”

Littles Doe Eye Suffering Sea Rivers Complexes Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Swimming Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.”

Needs Giving Doe Eye Spiritual Grace Blessing His Eyes Sunshine Supplies Pouring Spiritual Blessings

Author:J.R. Miller

“I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.”

People Doe Said Eye Lasts Girl Simple Forever Generations Mom My Mom Our Family Fades Inner Beauty Future Generation Bad Day Stressed Simple Things My Girl Beauty Fades Outer Beauty

Author:Tina Knowles

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

Doe Eye Faces House Doors One Day Ears Meetings Senses Indifferent Thrust Piety Puritan

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”

“Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.”

Ifs Doe Body Eye Beauty Wine

Author:John Godfrey Saxe

“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

“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”

Men Children Littles Doe Eye Feet Surface Naked Sensitive Unexpected Helpless Men Women Unexpected Things

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.”

People Mind Doe Body Happens Eye Together Heaven Stars Natural Views Objects Admire Fixed Exposed Immense Multitudes

Author:Saint Basil

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.”

Doe Eye Dating Blow Dust Courtship Whirlwind

Author:Jilly Cooper

“He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?”

Knows Men Persons Long Doe Eye Parent Virtue Ought Honor Advantage Blind Ancestor Boast Ancestry Blind Man

Author:Pierre Charron

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.”

Mind Children Doe Two Light Eye Born Unions Metaphor Two Things Shed Ceremony Marriage Ceremony

Book:Word Painting

Source: Word Painting

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