“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Glaedr
Variant: Learn to see what you are looking at.
Source: Inheritance (2011)
“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Glaedr
Variant: Learn to see what you are looking at.
Source: Inheritance (2011)
“Make-up? What happened? You look almost female."
"Thanks. You look almost straight.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Natural Born Charmer
“It is what you don't expect… that most needs looking for.”
Neal Stephenson book Anathem
Source: Anathem
M. John Harrison book Light
The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (p. 390)
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
“You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.”
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
1956 - 1967
Source: the 'Ad Reinhardts Papers', Archives of American Art, microfilm no. N/69-103, frame no. 268
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
David Fincher (1962) American film director
About the film, The Social Network
The Curious Case of David Fincher (2007)