Pastoral Resources

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.