Eye of the Beholder

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1:Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove

2:If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove

3:Art is not in the ... eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove

4:Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove

5:I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove

6:A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove

7:I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me &

8:It is liberal politics that believes the voter knows best. Liberal art holds that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Liberal economics maintains that the customer is always right. Liberal ethics advises us that if it feels good, we should go ahead and do it. Liberal education teaches us to think for ourselves, because we will find all the answers within us. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove

9:Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ... eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove

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1:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… ~ Lora Leigh,

2:Deviance is in the eye of the beholder ~ Anonymous,

3:Grody is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Kevin Hearne,

4:Evil is in the eye of the beholder. ~ David Mitchell,

5:Faith is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Tilda Swinton,

6:Futility is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Dean Koontz,

7:Divinity is only in the eye of the beholder ~ Kai Meyer,

8:Normal is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Whoopi Goldberg,

9:Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Jen Sincero,

10:Originality is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Mason Cooley,

11:I guess art is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Kehinde Wiley,

12:Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder. ~ John C Maxwell,

13:A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder ~ Pablo Picasso,

14:Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. ~ J R Ward,

15:The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ William Carlos Williams,

16:Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Samuel Johnson,

17:Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder. ~ Joan Didion,

18:Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,

19:If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. ~ Rodney Dangerfield,

20:What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder. ~ Jim Goad,

21:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex. ~ Spike Milligan,

22:Trouble, after all, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder ~ P G Wodehouse,

23:Suspicion, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder, ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,

24:You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Milton Friedman,

25:Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Victoria Alexander,

26:Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. ~ Seth Godin,

27:If beauty is in the eye of the beholder than consider yourself beholden. ~ Truth Devour,

28:I’ve often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Amanda Stevens,

29:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor. ~ Michael Dobbs,

30:Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. ~ Scott Sigler,

31:It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. ~ Christopher Hitchens,

32:Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. ~ E A Bucchianeri,

33:They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time. ~ Jake Vander Ark,

34:Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. ~ Frederick Lenz,

35:Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match. ~ Jodi Picoult,

36:Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match. ~ Jodi Picoult,

37:Perfect is in the eye of the beholder, Jade. In the right person’s eyes, you’re all kinds of perfect. ~ Ker Dukey,

38:Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother’s knee and other low joints, ~ Ross Macdonald,

39:...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? ~ Kate Morton,

40:Sometimes, what we call truth is only a perception, or prejudice, in the eye of the beholder.” Chelsea ~ Nesly Clerge,

41:I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Raquel Cepeda,

42:We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong. ~ Julie Anne Long,

43:Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it. ~ Marisa Miller,

44:Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know ~ John Berendt,

45:The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else. ~ Peter Ackroyd,

46:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So my only hope is that when I fall in love, find my one, that he finds me beautiful. ~ Jaymin Eve,

47:Monsters were in the eye of the beholder. And no one wanted to discover their hero was the true villain of the story. ~ Kerri Maniscalco,

48:It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ~ Thornton Wilder,

49:They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but so is ugly.
~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Maxwell Cole (Chapter 23) ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff,

50:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ~ Bart King,

51:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ~ Jim Henson,

52:I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it. ~ Peter Jennings,

53:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”-Jim Henson ~ K Larsen,

54:Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority. ~ Gene Brewer,

55:Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me. ~ Sharon Tate,

56:In commercial art - and all art that is worthy of the name is commercial sooner or later - stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,

57:The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Helena Christensen,

58:Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Machado de Assis,

59:Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim. ~ Roy F Baumeister,

60:It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot. ~ Paul Kearney,

61:Sacredness, I suppose, is in the eye of the beholder. What intrigues me, though, is that it has always seemed to me that the less we hold sacred, the more fiercely we protect it. ~ Tyler Dilts,

62:I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,

63:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells. ~ Charlie Brooker,

64:Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,

65:Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water. ~ Terry Pratchett,

66:Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life. ~ Frederick Lenz,

67:The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder. ~ Roger Fry,

68:If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! ‘Eyes’ - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out! ~ Stephen Richards,

69:The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld suggests that beauty in nature does not necessarily bespeak health, nor necessarily redound to the benefit of the beautiful. ~ Michael Pollan,

70:Sacrifice was also in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, it was a personal, subjective assessment, a cost-benefit analysis that had no right answer, only a compass that spun around an individual’s variant of true north. Throe, ~ J R Ward,

71:A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Stephen King,

72:I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

Carson said, "Lucky for you, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I will acknowledge you really do an exhaustive job cleaning the bedroom. ~ Dean Koontz,

73:When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. ~ Ashley Judd,

74:People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ~ Salma Hayek,

75:Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don’t believe there is such a thing…” “You’re not going to tell me.” “But you don’t need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you’ll just notice the details. They’re scattered like crumbs… ~ Andrew J Robinson,

76:The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau,

77:Fair’ is in the eye of the beholder; ‘free’ is the verdict of the market. The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents. ~ Milton Friedman,

78:A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression. ~ Penelope Hobhouse,

79:Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match. ~ Jodi Picoult,

80:I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him. ~ Richard Bach,

81:You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that’s what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren’t rappin’ and cussin’ like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself. ~ Luke Bryan,

82:Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore. ~ Elizabeth Brundage,

83:It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books. ~ Peter M Brant,

84:Central Africa was a region without writing, but not without a history. Hundreds, yea thousands of years of human history preceded the arrival of the Europeans. If a heart of darkness existed back then, it was sooner to be found in the ignorance with which white explorers viewed the area than in the area itself. Darkness, too, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ David Van Reybrouck,

85:Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. ~ Seth Godin,

86:Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. ~ Seth Godin,

87:you still pretend to be.” “Cynical I will always be, I fear.” I sipped from the mug, letting the steam and scent circle my face, breathing the steam. “Non. You are not cynical. You see the world as it is.” “Perhaps. I try, but what we are colors what we see. Truth is in the eye of the beholder.” I laughed, more harshly than I meant. “That’s why I’m skeptical of those who say they have found the truth. ~ L E Modesitt Jr,

88:Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured to Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do we get there?"! ~ Anton Szandor LaVey,

89:I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the eye of the beholder. Judging art on a point system in the first place seems totally ridiculous! But since I grew up in such a competitive, point-awarding world, I wanted the grand prize more than anything. I wanted to be number one and get all the glory. Glory, huh... how stupid! ~ Ai Yazawa,

90:Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same. ~ Eoin Colfer,

91:One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks ”stardust” or “caesar’s palace.” Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with “real” life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder. ~ Joan Didion,

92:The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman. These things do not come near it - the experience of beauty, the event of beauty. The anxiety about it is what makes it such a central concern of culture and makes us so interested in it. ~ Jonathan Santlofer,

93:It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much better to sell them at cost and then to reward the innovator in some other way. This is not always possible, because in some cases the value of an innovation is in the eye of the beholder; it's very difficult to value how much a new Madonna song is worth, for example. But in the case of medicines, green technologies and seeds in agriculture, such an alternative reward mechanism is fairly straightforward. ~ Thomas Pogge,

94:The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears, the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can; we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales. ~ Patricia A McKillip,

95:Men have told me I’m beautiful before,” I said, shrugging, “but at the end of the day I’d rather be thought of for more than just looks.” Louis’s eyes roamed across my face, and I could see thoughts churning in their unusual purple depths. “Yes, people have told you, but you don’t really believe them. Or maybe it’s that you don’t really seem interested when they say it.” He pulled on my hand, and we started walking again. “Why is that, do you think?” I knew I wasn’t ugly, and I had some striking features, like my hair and eyes, but I thought I was much more beautiful in wolf form. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So my only hope is that when I fall in love, find my one, that he finds me beautiful. ~ Jaymin Eve,

96:These fascinating findings make it untenable to claim that personality ratings are irrelevant, or all in the eye of the beholder, or tell you nothing but some kind of story that the participant is spinning about himself. Being alive and having a successful partnership are profoundly important elements, in both experiential and evolutionary terms, of any human life, and so if some pen-and-paper rating scale that takes ten minutes to complete predicts them, however imperfectly, we should sit up and take notice. We should try to understand how it could be that such a scale could have any predictive value given the preposterous and unpredictable complexity of human life. That, of course, is what this book is about. ~ Daniel Nettle,

97:Another interview, some more personal philosophy shared with the people of Japan:
“You are in favour with women,” he is told. “Do you have any secret to be sexy?”
“Yeah”, he answers. “Get famous and rich. Yeah, If you’re famous and rich, you become better-looking instantly. In fact, I’m quite an average guy but it’s what people think I’ve got that makes me sexy, it’s not what I actually have.”

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“It’s 50 percent of what you’ve got and 50 percent of what people think you’ve got that makes you sexy… Yeah, I’m rich. That makes me sexy. Sexy’s in the eye of the beholder. I don’t fancy me much. They’ve got the perception that I’m a bit of a wild one, and I think people like to think they can tame you. ~ Chris Heath,

98:You are still beautiful,” Fern said softly, her face turned to his. He was quiet for a moment, but he didn't pull away or groan or deny what she'd said. “I think that statement is more a reflection of your beauty than mine,” Ambrose said eventually, turning his head so he could look down at her. Fern's face was touched with moonglow, the color of her eyes and the red of her hair undecipherable in the wash of pale light. But her features were clear–the dark pools of expressive eyes, the small nose and soft mouth, the earnest slant of her brow that indicated she didn't understand his response. “You know that thing people always say, about beauty being in the eye of the beholder?” “Yes?” “I always thought it meant we all have different tastes, different preferences . . . you know? Some guys focus on the legs, some guys prefer blondes, some men like girls with long hair, that kind of thing. I never thought about it really, not before this moment. But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.” “Beautiful on the inside?” “Yes. ~ Amy Harmon,

99:It’s not a matter of Dad sitting down with his preadolescent son and incorporating 'Don’t be a criminal!' into the 'birds and the bees' talk. (I mean, that couldn’t hurt, probably. But it’s not the point.) It’s about teaching our boys to actively oppose sexual violence.

It’s all well and good to say you’re against rape and would never rape anyone, end of story. But somewhere in that crowd of guys laughing about an unconscious girl getting 'a wang in the butthole, dude'—and the one listening to Daniel Tosh say, 'Wouldn’t it be funny if she got gang-raped right now?' and the one reading an op-ed in the Washington Post that puts 'sexual assault' in quotation marks, as though it exists only in the eye of the beholder—somewhere in all of those crowds is the guy who would rape someone. The guy who will rape someone. The guy who has raped someone.

And could you blame any of those guys for thinking that rape is not a serious crime, or even something to be particularly ashamed of, when so many 'good' guys around them are laughing at the same jokes? ~ Kate Harding,

100:Las Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification, a place the tone of which is set by mobsters and call girls and ladies’ room attendants with amyl nitrite poppers in their uniform pockets. Almost everyone notes that there is no “time” in Las Vegas, no night and no day and no past and no future (no Las Vegas casino, however, has taken the obliteration of the ordinary time sense quite so far as Harold’s Club in Reno, which for a while issued, at odd intervals in the day and night, mimeographed “bulletins” carrying news from the world outside); neither is there any logical sense of where one is. One is standing on a highway in the middle of a vast hostile desert looking at an eighty-foot sign which blinks ”stardust” or “caesar’s palace.” Yes, but what does that explain? This geographical implausibility reinforces the sense that what happens there has no connection with “real” life; Nevada cities like Reno and Carson are ranch towns, Western towns, places behind which there is some historical imperative. But Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder. All of which makes it an extraordinarily stimulating and interesting place, but an odd one in which to want to wear a candlelight satin Priscilla of Boston wedding dress with Chantilly lace insets, tapered sleeves and a detachable modified train. ~ Joan Didion,

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