“The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
Be More Cynical (2000)
Quotes about look page 23
“Look to the living, love them, and hold on.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Variant: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
“The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”
Robin Cook (1931–1994) English crime writer
Source: Crisis
“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
James Fenimore Cooper book The Deerslayer
Source: The Deerslayer
“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
Justina Chen (1968) American writer
Source: North of Beautiful
“Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.”
Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
“There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside"
-Hanna”
Sara Shepard (1973) Author
Source: Unbelievable
“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Golden Years
Song lyrics, Station to Station (1976)
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7
Context: Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Invisible Library
“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian
Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 33
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: The Secret
“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: Necklace of Kisses
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
“Nico and Hazel exchanged looks. They both knew better, but they said nothing.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Variant: A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Source: Salem Falls
Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author
Source: House at the Corner
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
Frank E. Peretti (1951) American writer
“What kind of look are you going for?” he asked instead.
“Clothed.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: The King
“I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob)
Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dream Warrior
“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves?”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
