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“Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.”

Ifs World Light Eye Powerful Figures Kings Court Wander Titles Elsewhere

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.”

Humans Looks Made Body Light Eye Energy Buddhism Rate Subtle Physical Body Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.”

Ifs Made Light Seems Eye Life Is Seeing Illusion Senses Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.”

Light Eye Christian Sun Healthy Pure Draws Intellect Orthodox Orthodox Christian Knowledge Of God

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.”

Thinking Sometimes Light Eye Actors Lost Views Bird Traits Hitting

Author:Allison Williams

“Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.”

Light Eye Desire Sun Our Lives Moon Catastrophe Linked

Book:The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays

“Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire”

Soul Light Eye Night Sells Dollars Caught Teeth Your Soul Rescue Consumerism Spares Blinded Dimes Overconsumption Neon Stranded Eye For An Eye Rescue Me Crossfire Day Night Neon Lights

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source: Advice for a Young Investigator

“"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."”

People Said I Can Real Light Eye Able Science Wish Can Do Kings Distance Observation Tone Through The Looking Glass

Book:Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

“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.”

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“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)

“Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.”

Looks Light Eye Saws Admire Admiring Closing Your Eyes

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.”

Men Stills Light Eye Wonder Mystery Universal Educated Controlled Delicate Organs Sense Of Wonder Snail Educated Man Wonder And Mystery

Author:Loren Eiseley

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.”

Firsts Art Character Light Eye Turns Objects Color Masters Degrees Highest Mark Regard Excellence Shade Strokes

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

“Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.”

Light Eye Half Study Subjects Easier Draws Starting Exaggerated Closed Eyes

Author:Stan Smith

“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canva... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow, before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”

Littles Light Eye House Strong Memories Tree Shadow Scales Spots Evening Atmosphere Colour Canvas Moscow Stripes Saturated Munich

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Ifs Soul Matter Philosophy Use Body Light Eye Spiritual Sleep Study Shadow Vices Communicate Intellect Substance Contemplation Rays Spiritual Life Devoted Awakened Angelic

Book:The Book of the Courtier

Source: The Book of the Courtier

“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.”

Whole Light Eye Universe Indian Native Within You Native American Salute Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Light Within Native Country

Author:Crazy Horse

“Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.”

Source: Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.

“Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.”

Light Eye Universe Given Darkness Ignorance Salvation Superstitions Vastness

Book:My Beliefs

Source: My Beliefs

“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.”

“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.”

Mean Littles Light Eye Wish Reader Pages Magazines Tape Arrangements Binding

Author:Kingsley Amis

“We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.”

God Light Eye Stars Space Perfect Forget Mystery Pure Infinity Penetrate Space Between

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.”

Ifs Light Eye Energy Middle Information Percent Musical Scales Naked Compare Eighty Naked Eyes

Author:Louis Schwartzberg

“There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.”

Ifs Looks Light Eye Night Stars Sides Sky Truth Is Shining Corners Cells Staring Sensitive Far Away Night Sky Periphery Stars In The Night Sky

Book:A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Source: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

“Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.”

Light Eye Rose Lips Petals Rose Petals

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.”

Ifs Want Ideas Light Eye Letting Go Shadow Skins Forgotten Invisible Dust Fulfillment Turmoil Brightness Weaving Light And Shadow

Author:Hongzhi Zhengjue

“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.”

“As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.”

Firsts Matter Light Eye Beautiful Space Objects Gay Intense Painter Composer Time And Space Stimulus Foul

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.”

Mind Heart Wisdom Light Eye Sun Fire Youth Hair Pure Grey Kindling Grey Hair

Book:Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper

Source: Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper

“The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.”

Firsts Shows Light Eye Sun Weak Sight Distance Clouds Harm Rising Globes Sunrise Beam Hasty Sun Rise

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.”

Ifs Light Eye Night Turns Choices Five Advice Hundred Prison Shining Cells Turn Off Bulbs Mattresses Sleepless Nights Bunk Words Of Advice

Author:William Powell

“When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.”

Humans Different Light Eye Life Is Three Records Human Life Pairs

Book:Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”

Thinking Persons Done Bigs Light Eye Actors Can Do Lines Studios Bored Dull Memorizing

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“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

“Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.”

People Light Eye Dark Half Millions Sun Moon Hundred Evidence Capacity Fifty Brighter Light And Dark

Book:How to Use Your Eyes

Source: How to Use Your Eyes

“Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but the fog had crept in slowly at the same time. When I lifted my eyes from the panel, I realized that I had better get a move on - and quickly.”

Sometimes Light Eye Moving Courses Pay Painting Busy I Realized Fog

Author:Cory Trepanier

“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.”

“He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.”

Light Eye His Eyes

Author:Leopold Trepper

“It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.”

Ifs Light Eye Advantage Unbelief

Author:Saint Augustine

“O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.”

Light Eye Turns Heaven Fairs Plant Noble Joyful Transport

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.”

Long Light Eye Earth Common Brain Millions Wind Drink Window Let Me Silent Depth Wide Dedicated Roof Palaces Aisle

Book:Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

Source: Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

Men Hands Light Eye Clay Diaries Clumsy

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.”

Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories

“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”

Light Eye Lying Grows Dark Darkness Losing Seeking

Book:The works of Shakespeare

Source: The works of Shakespeare

“The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.”

Soul Whole Body Light Eye Darkness Instruments Darkness To Light

Author:Plato