“He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.”

“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”

“The logic of arguments from :en:Naturalness (physics) resembles the attempt to. predict the plot of a long-running TV series. If the hero -- here, naturalness --is in a pickle, certainly he will survive, so something must happen to turn around a situation that looks bleak.”

“If he's 27 today, he would have been 26 last week, and he doesn't look 26. He didn't look 26 last week, and he looks older than 28 today.”

“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”

“It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.”

“Once he’d been in his twenties, looking forward. Now he was a shade past fifty, and what he looked back on was subtly less satisfactory than what he had looked forward to.”

“If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.”

“He [Steve Jobs] showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.”

“He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.”