I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.