Eyes
Quotes - I watch what I eat every day
“Perception
requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never
complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the
greatest evidence of an event one can obtain is to see it with their own eyes,
and in a court of law little is held in more esteem than eyewitness testimony.
Yet if you asked to display for a court a video of the same quality as the
unprocessed data catptured on the retina of a human eye, the judge might wonder
what you were tryig to put over. For one thing, the view will have a blind spot
where the optic nerve attaches to the retina. Moreover, the only part of our
field of vision with good resolution is a narrow area of about 1 degree of
visual angle around the retina’s center, an area the width of our thumb as it
looks when held at arm’s length. Outside that region, resolution drops off
sharply. To compensate, we constantly move our eyes to bring the sharper region
to bear on different portions of the scene we wish to observe. And so the pattern
of raw data sent to the brain is a shaky, badly pixilated picture with a hole
in it. Fortunately the brain processes the data, combining input from both
eyes, filling in gaps on the assumption that the visual properties of
neighboring locations are similar and interpolating. The result - at least
until age, injury, disease, or an excess of mai tais takes its toll - is a
happy human being suffering from the compelling illusion that his or her vision
is sharp and clear.
We
also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of
nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments
based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are
done analyzing the patterns, that out “picture” is clear and accurate. But is
it?”
―
Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
“Looking
but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“His
eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
“I
know you’ll speak no truth at this time.
I’ve
to be guided
solely
by your silence, your eyes and
the
inaudible appeals of your heart.”
―
Suman Pokhrel
“Sometimes
playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”
―
Anthony Liccione
“[S]he
stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one
eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
―
Charles Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit
“Maybe
life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting
a swathe through the breeze
and
gently closing your eyes.”
―
Sanober Khan
“The
eyes hold tears for so long; let us fill it with love and passion.”
―
Suman Pokhrel
“Sentences
confined to limited definitions
meanings
restricted to limited words
knotted
in experiences and sensations
musings,
smiles and the eyes;
and
holding the entire love
of
Creation in my heart
how
may I offer you one?”
―
Suman Pokhrel, शून्य मुटुको धड्कनà¤ित्र)
[Shoonya Mutuku Dhadkanbhitra]
“When
darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A
chain of voices opens up.
Let
wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s.
Shhh" -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)”
―
yvonne woon
“When
the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language
of tears”
―
Ikechukwu Izuakor
“We
scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through
our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that
the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
“I
watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?”
―
Brian Celio
“Your
very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable
and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the
doorway!
...
You
have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was
reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.”
―
Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
“She
was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me,
and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of
looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They
would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have
stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not
look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things,”
―
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“CALL
YOURSELF
Look
deep in the mirror
And
say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And
immediately
An
electric current will
Ripple
throughout your soul
And
burst through your eyes
Like
shooting stars
Dancing
across the skies
In
ecstasy.
To
tell your soul you love it -
Is
like remembering
WHO
YOU ARE
After
being in a coma
For
a hundred years.
Your
face will beam the light
Of a
hundred galaxies.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I
open my eyes.
I
want to know:
what
is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are
stars born in these black caves
that
house bated breaths and unspoken words?
Do
our souls crawl on these tender cheeks
to
greet one another by ivory gates?
What
happens when we kiss?
Where
do you go?
Don’t
tell me.
For
I have lost my desire to know.
Kiss
me
so
that I forget myself.
I
close my eyes
and
fall in the abyss.”
―
Kamand Kojouri
