Jeepers Creepers – where’d you get them peepers? Johnny Mercer, song 1938
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two. Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Mr Squeers
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams that the imagination awake. Leonardo da Vinci
The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Yiddish proverb
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. G K Chesterton
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes
Might furnish crowns for all the queens on Earth. Philip James Bailey, Festus
Her eye (I’m very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash’d an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten’d down the whole. Lord Byron, Don Juan 1:60
With eyes that look’d into the very soul ...
Bright – and as black and burning as coal. ibid. IV:94
The All-Seeing Eye or Third Eye is the key to communication with these beings (Sixth Sense). Labyrinth of Truth
Smoke Gets in your Eyes. Otto Harbach, song 1933
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22&23
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Matthew 18:9
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye. Luke 6:41&42
Blessed are the eyes which see the things which ye see. Luke 10:23
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
The anatomy of the human eye, in fact, shows anything but ‘intelligence’ in its design. It is built upside down and backwards, requiring photons of light to travel through the cornea, lens, aqueous fluid, blood vessels, ganglion cells, amacrine cells, horizontal cells, and bipolar cells before they reach the light-sensitive rods and cones that transduce the light signals ... Why would an intelligent designer have built an eye upside down and backwards? Michael Shermer
‘And that is the source of all my nightmares: I’m always gazed at by those eyes that I didn’t close.’ The Act of Killing, Sky Atlantic 2016
Let’s close our eyes and see what happens. Jimmy Greaves
Wanna cry, wanna croon.
Wanna laugh like a loon.
It’s that Old Devil Moon in your eyes. Yip Harburg, song 1946
God: What are you doing now?
King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well don’t. It’s just like those miserable hymns. Always so depressing. Now knock it off. Monty Python’s The Holy Grail 1975 starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Pain & Neil Innes & Connie Booth & Carol Cleveland et al, directors Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
It’s my eyes holding me back. Trailer Park Boys s3e2: Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor, Bubbles
The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost’s eyes. Steve Coppell, Radio Five Live
Barry Davies: And we’ve certainly got a fine opening match here from these two players, just 12 minutes gone and neither man looking particularly in trouble. You can see that audacious eyeballing that the Ukrainian, Roman Solowka, is giving Yuri Uzliam from Russia on the right there, but Uzliam is putting up a brilliant defence, very tight, very solid. If you’ve just joined us, you’re watching the 43rd World Stareout Finals …
David [Phil Cornwell]: … Yes, he looks like a man in form. Big Train s1e1, BBC 1998
The pressure on these players is enormous. One blink and it’s over. ibid.
Barry Davis: Well here we are, it’s Ted Stead against Sid Hartha. If you’ve just joined us, you’re watching the 43rd World Stareout Championship Finals. Hartha, there, the ‘Grasshopper’, good to see him back, David.
David: Yes well I mean he did have that terrible incident with that stray eyelash in the semi-final of the invitation event in Budapest, Hungary. Big Train s1e2
Of course, there are no stare breaks in the amateur game. ibid. David
Barry Davis: Well, what a delicately poised match we have here. The first four hours have really zipped by. ibid.
Barry Davis: Now this as they say is the big one. Benny Kiang against Leonard Hulz. If you’ve just joined us, you’re watching the 43rd World Stareout Championship finals. Leonard Hulz, he’s such a natural talent, incredible to think he won’t be 18 until May … Big Train s1e3
Benny Kiang, it don’t get much better than that, John, does it? … There is a slight question mark over his temperament because he does like to court controversy. ibid.
Barry Davis: If you’ve just joined us, you’re watching the 43rd World Stareout finals. We’re all set for Anan Nanak against England’s John Duran. It’s impossible not to comment on Duran’s unusual style. Big Train s1e4
Well we’ve been eagerly awaiting this match. Even though it’s likely to be a test for the commentators. It’s Samuel Wallace against Pipi Popstopolous. I have to say that this match hasn’t quite caught fire yet. Big Train s1e5
Let’s face it. You can’t cut it in the real world. Join the Army. ibid.
Well here we are. We’re all set. It’s a capacity crowd. And we’re ready for the World Championship Stareout final. Joining me in the commentary box is David Johnson. Hello, David. Big Train s1e6
He really does eat, drink and breathe staring. ibid.
Well, John, he’ll be digging very deep at the moment. ibid.
This worrying problem of drugs in the game. ibid.