Quotes about look
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“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

People

“I looked like a ghost.
And I should know. I’ve seen a few.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

Faith, Memory

“His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.”

Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Almost Heaven

Love

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”

Tom Perrotta Election

Source: Election

Love, People, Thinking

“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Deep

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

"The Friend. The Improvisatore" (1828)

Life, Pleasure, Smile, Feeling

“Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare.
"The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Winter

“[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil.
“Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Game

“Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded.
"I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Angels

“Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)”

D.J. MacHale book The Reality Bug

Source: The Reality Bug

Reality, Time, Dead

“… she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Sadness

“She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Summer Lightning

Source: Summer Lightning

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

Feeling, Star, Thinking, Universe

“The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

Fools, Reality, Appearance

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Help

“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Disappointment

“If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Failure, Thinking

“If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Context: I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Source: I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

Personality

“I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Music, Color, Tree, Housing

“What are you doing?"
"Looking for my fangs."
"We don't grow fangs you idiot!”

Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak

Source: A Living Nightmare

“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Truth, Feeling

“Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

Wolf

“Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?'

She looked me straight in the eye and smiled.

'I like your body,' she said.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Smile

“Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Boy

“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Way

“He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

“It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Time

“Look at your body—
A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

Description: from the The Dhammapada
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

Disease, Imagination, Suffering, Parting

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Thinking

“All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Source: Debits And Credits

People, Way, Thinking, Sea

“Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.”

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

“Because when I look at you, I forget everything. I lose all track of what I’m saying or doing. I can see only your eyes.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Forgetting

“As she shuffled back, he glanced down at the tent between his legs. Christ, that goddamn thing in there was huge; he looked like he had another arm in his pants.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Christ

“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Dance

“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

War, Sadness

“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

Way, Tree

“Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Love, Grass

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Hate, People, World

“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”

Raymond Chandler book The Little Sister

Source: The Little Sister

Way

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Aloha from Hell

Secret, Moms

“When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Fate

Source: Fool's Fate

People, Animals

“We all look. The lucky find.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Heart of the Sea

“He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Boy

“Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed.
“Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, Cats, Study

“She thought I was… soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Soul, Thinking

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

Men, Fear, Help

“It was a bit warm. Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”

Meg Cabot book Teen Idol

Source: Teen Idol

Love

“Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.”

Barbara Marciniak (1928–2012)

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Feeling, Understanding, Learning

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

World

“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”

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

Source: Erak's Ransom

Horse, Flying

“Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?"
"I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks."
"All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: This Heart of Mine

Women, Personality

“You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?"

I didn't do anything"

Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot"

-Chloe & Derek-”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Question

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Law

“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Way, Boy

“Cassie looked up at him, her fingers still intermeshed with his. "Sorry," she said unsteadily. "I was just scared."
"Remind me to get you scared frequently," Nick said. He looked slightly dazed.”

L.J. Smith book The Secret Circle: The Power

Source: The Power

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Water

“Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.“ She nods her head slowly. „What do you think you‘d look like?” “Smaller, for a start.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Thinking

“QUINN; You always look after Number One, don't you?
ASH; Doesn't everybody?”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Men, People

“I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.”
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Variant: I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.
Source: Blood Promise

Love

“Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind… then what is the difference between this world and a dream?”

Kaori Ozaki (1976) Japanese mangaka

Source: Immortal Rain, Vol. 1

World, Dreams, Reality

“You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Truth, Peace, Hope, Soul

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Life, Smile, Spring, Thinking

“She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!”

Mildred D. Taylor book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Hurt

“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Love

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Life, Night

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

Way, Heart

“But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

World, Star

“When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things…”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

World, Way, Water

“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”

Norman Lewis (1908–2003) British travel writer

People

“I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.”

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

Source: The Ladies of the Corridor

Fear, Learning, Loneliness

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Variant: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Depressing, Life, Search, Light