Untutored Eye Quotes

#1. How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Stan Brakhage

#2. My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Jack London

#3. It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.

Tom Holt

#4. You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Walter Kirn

#5. By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#6. I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.

Suzanne Collins

#7. We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already.
Chopper Jim Chopin

Dana Stabenow

#8. North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.

Travis Bowman

#9. There really is more to this world than meets the casual or untutored eye.

H.M. Forester