Quotes about glance
A collection of quotes on the topic of glance, likeness, look, eye.
Quotes about glance

“On film you put all your energies into a single glance. ”

Narada Bhakti Sutras (2001)
Context: A million words cannot express what a glance can convey, and a million glances cannot express what a moment of silence can. A moment of silence conveys so much more than any other expression. Still, love is beyond silence too. You can describe silence to some extent, but that which is beyond silence cannot be expressed. You give, you hug... but still something remains unexpressed.
“I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.”
Source: The Back Door of Midnight

My View of the World (1961)
Context: This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (1638); Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze, as translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)
Other quotes
Source: Discorsi E Dimostrazioni Matematiche: Intorno a Due Nuoue Scienze, Attenenti Alla Mecanica & I Movimenti Locali
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana
Other quotes
Source: Frammenti e lettere
Context: My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Source: Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden

“O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
Among School Children http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1437/, st. 8
The Tower (1928)
Context: Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Guardian interview, Saturday 4 July 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/04/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-jk-rowling

"To my Child-friend" in The Game Of Logic (1886)

“Asia surrounds us — wherever one’s glance rests, a Tartar physiognomy.”
Asien verschlingt uns. Wohin man blickt: tatarische Gesichter.
Variant translation: Asia devours us. Wherever one looks: Tartar faces.
Settembrini in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)

“And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?”
Hanging Up, Delia Ephron

Letter to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov, (28 December 1846), Rue d'Orleans, 42, Faubourg Namur, Marx Engels Collected Works Vol. 38, p. 95; International Publishers (1975). First Published: in full in the French original in M.M. Stasyulevich i yego sovremenniki v ikh perepiske, Vol. III, 1912
Source: The King of Lies (2006), Ch. 2.

Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 16

"To One In Paradise", st. 4; variants of this verse read "where thy dark eye glances".

“Man's deepest glances are those that go out to the void. They converge beyond the All.”
Socrates, p. 141
Eupalinos ou l'architecte (1921)

Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1924)

Source: 1880s, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), p. 355.
Context: On this inauguration day, while waiting for the opening of the ceremonies, I made a discovery in regard to the vice president — Andrew Johnson. There are moments in the lives of most men, when the doors of their souls are open, and unconsciously to themselves, their true characters may be read by the observant eye. It was at such an instant I caught a glimpse of the real nature of this man, which all subsequent developments proved true. I was standing in the crowd by the side of Mrs. Thomas J. Dorsey, when Mr. Lincoln touched Mr. Johnson, and pointed me out to him. The first expression which came to his face, and which I think was the true index of his heart, was one of bitter contempt and aversion. Seeing that I observed him, he tried to assume a more friendly appearance; but it was too late; it was useless to close the door when all within had been seen. His first glance was the frown of the man, the second was the bland and sickly smile of the demagogue. I turned to Mrs. Dorsey and said, 'Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he certainly is no friend of our race'.

“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.”
Source: Wanted
Source: Fate's Edge
Source: Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People

“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
Source: The Beautiful And Damned
Source: Alice in Zombieland

"My Senegalese Birds and Siamese Cats", Holiday Magazine; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
Source: Lover Awakened

“the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Source: The Undead Next Door
Source: Magic Bites
Source: Wild Man Creek