Quotes about look
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“Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love

“His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.”

Irvine Welsh (1958) Scottish novelist

Soul, Dance

“You know, if you have certain frustrations," Ascanio said, "I would be happy to help you work them out."
Derek looked at me, pointed at Ascanio, and punched his left palm with his right fist a few times. I shook my head.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Time, Help, Happiness

“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

Boy

“Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

Books

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”

Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows

Source: Of Love and Shadows

Women, Time

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Flowers

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession & Others

People, World

“If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Whisper

Women, Beauty, Effort

“Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”

Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

Love, Life, God, People

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Personality

“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Variant: Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?

Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
Source: This Lullaby

“Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

World

“She weighed no more than a feather as he lifted her, but he teased her, saying, "You weigh more than you look."
"You are weaker than you look," she immediately whispered.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Dare

“One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.”

Mercedes Lackey book Alta

Source: Alta

Passion

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Way, Feeling, Girl, Help

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Relationship, People, Personality

“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Women, Way

“Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.”
“Did he make you take a blood oath that you’d protect me?”
“He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Health

“You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't.
His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Halt's Peril

“The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Problem

“look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them…. Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

People, Color

“I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Drink, Night

“Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking
after himself.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

God, Help

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 2 : 'Work', p.45

Men, Law, Beauty

“Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Smile, Dogs, Personality

“So just look mean and don’t make eye contact with anyone. (Syn)
Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

Anne Michaels (1958) Poet and novelist

Beauty, Way

“I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller.
Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?"
Oh, yeah."
--The Looking Glass Wars”

Frank Beddor American skier and writer

War, Thinking, Sense

“Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them. the look seemed to say.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Secret

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”

James Ellroy (1948) Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Way, Understanding, Flying

“I'll be needing a bridesmaid', she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Way

“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Way, Girl, Boy, Thinking

“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Personality

“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

Cats

“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Cheaters

Love, Kiss

“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Context: In America, more than anywhere else, the individual is lost in the achievements of the many. America is beginning to be the world leader in scientific investigation. American scholarship is both patient and inspiring. The Americans show an unselfish devotion to science, which is the very opposite of the conventional European view of your countrymen. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. It is not true that the dollar is an American fetish. The American student is not interested in dollars, not even in success as such, but in his task, the object of the search. It is his painstaking application to the study of the infinitely little and the infinitely large which accounts for his success in astronomy.

“Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?"
"Not really," said Simon.
"Magnus is wearing lederhosen."
"And yet, still no.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Photo

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Attribution debunked by Langworth.
Misattributed
Source: Published by Richard Langworth online: https://richardlangworth.com/quotes

Beauty, Beauty

“excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Box

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Love, Hate

“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Truth

“The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Lie, Feeling, Star, Night

“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “Youhave a plan?”
Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Hope

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Deep, Age

“Are you threatening to kidnap me?"
"If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Way

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”

Anne McCaffrey Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Source: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern 1983

“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know-this is the night we become real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way, Girl, Kiss, Night

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Life, Past, Future

“I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Happiness

“I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Way, Learning, Clothes

“Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin.
I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Way

“Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“What are you looking at? Hale asked.
Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Smile

“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“For a second I thought I might actually be alive,” I said, looking at Nick’s unshaven face. “Now I know— I’ve gone to Hell and you’re my nursemaid.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

Hell

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003) German film director, photographer, actress and dancer

Life, Feeling, Heart

“And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Dance

“Look, it's not you. It's, and my inability to dig dirty dudes.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Demon from the Dark

“If and perhaps…. The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

People

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

Thinking

“She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28, Phillip Marlowe watching Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars

Housing

“You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt.

"I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage."

Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Pain

“Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it."
"What?" He looked confused”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Smile

“We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.”
They looked at me.
“Why the head?” Doolittle asked.
“Because it’s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn’t just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Time

“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

Wisdom, Food, Personality

“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”
“And this is exactly what I mean.”
“Our love is written in the stars.”
“And there you go again.”
“I love you.”
“You bore me.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Love, Star

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

People, Business

“To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, Truth, World, Thinking

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Variant: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Source: East of Eden

Life, People

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

People, Way

“…. and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

People, Lie, Way, Change

“Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-’80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word:.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Way, Girl

“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by."

Way