Quotes about look
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“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Guy

“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Problem

“The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Music, Way, Girl, Forgetting

“You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

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“God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.”

Michael Leunig (1945) Australian artist

God, Help, Heart

“I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”

Wendy Mass A Mango-Shaped Space

Source: A Mango-Shaped Space

People

“Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.”

Rebecca Wells book Little Altars Everywhere

Source: Little Altars Everywhere

“Places have their own characters…. But the people begin to look the same.”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

People

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

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

Deep, Beauty, Wise, Life

“It isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Women

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Asleep

Source: Asleep

Time

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

God, Color

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

Love

“A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

For Father, Women, Wedding, Daughters

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

History, Memory, Change

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Hurt

“Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)

“Yes, I'm back," he said, "And look who I ran into."
Horace grinned at him. "i hope you ran into him hard."
"As hard as I could.”

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

Source: Halt's Peril

Hope

“….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Drawing

“You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Family, Perfection, Happiness

“He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if… I dont want you to---'
Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.'
And that's how I felt.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

Rage, Passion

“They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Evil

“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

Change, Singing

“What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Way

“That would be like making a pact with Lucifer. (Zarek)
Yes, but I don’t smell like sulfur. And I happen to dress better. Luc always looks like a pimp. (Dionysus)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.”

Christopher Pike book Sati

Source: Sati

Waiting

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Peace, Solitude

“but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

Coffee, Thinking

“I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

Life, Future

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Time

“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Dance

“They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke.
Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Life, Youth

“Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Money, Way

“I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Dreams, Feeling, Girl

“Clary grinned at Luke. “So you’re not moving to Idris, I take it?”
“Nah,” he said. He looked as happy as she’d ever seen him. “The pizza here is terrible.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Happiness

“I don't care who her mother is," Magnus said. "You can't see me with out an appointment. Come back later. Next March would be good,"
"March?" Sebastian looked horrified.
"You're right," Magnus said, "Too rainy. How about June?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"

Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."

"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

God, Heart, Dead

“There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Food, Nature, Box, Season

“A Boat

O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Beauty, Tear, Water, Evil

“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

Feeling, Business, Country

“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

Optimism, Universe

“Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Winter

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Thinking

“You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love, Sadness, Heart

“Frowning, she looked up. "You can't want to ravish me every time we meet."
Oh, yes, he could. Demon gritted his teeth…”

Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer

Source: A Rogue's Proposal

Time

“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Source: The Use of Lateral Thinking

Way

“In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Love, Death, Kiss, Dead

“From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.”

Ray Bradbury book The Illustrated Man

Source: The Illustrated Man

Life

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it”

Edith Schaeffer (1914–2013) American writer

People, Perfection

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”

Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer

Tree

“Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Clary, pg. 149
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Freedom, Time

“We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I always knew there were vampires, dude,” he’d said. “Because, you know how there’s people you know who, like, always look the same, even when they’re, like, a hundred years old? Like David Bowie? That’s because they’re vampires.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

People

“Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?”

Pamela Dean Tam Lin

Source: Tam Lin

World, Art, Reading

“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”

Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1950) British writer

Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide

Life, Thinking, Fight

“I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Drink

“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”

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

Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”

F. Paul Wilson (1946) novelist

People, Cheating

“If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Guy, Wedding

“Looks can be decieving”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”

David Walsh (1955) Irish sports journalist

Beauty, People, World

“When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Grace for the Moment

God, Failure, Victory

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

World, Understanding

“People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

People, Problem

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Thinking, Personality

“Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Way

“If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Sense

“Look on the bright side," said Simon. "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
Jace brightened. "It's always nice when someone volunteers to be the first up against the wall.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
“It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.”
“Ought to be?” Aline look worried.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Drink, Past

“It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room."
Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“See… I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

People, Baby

“You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Life, Learning

“I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

People, Shoe

“Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Possibly said by Hugh Allen, printed in Reader's Digest (Jan. 1967)
Misattributed

Thinking, Happiness

“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”

Eoin Colfer book Airman

Source: Airman

Men

“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

“That’s the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It’s still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.”

Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist

Smile, Dreams, Way, Home

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Men, Stupidity

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

God

“That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

People, Way

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Books, Home

“I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Time

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Source: Calvin and Hobbes

Life, Way, Learning

“Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Gift

Beauty, Way, Strong, Time

“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”

Garrison Keillor book We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

Source: We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters

People, Time

“The news just came in from the County of Keck
That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck
Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck.
This may not seem very important, I know, but it
Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks.
Then you grow up.”

John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

Age, Boy, Thinking, Personality

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Nature, Change

“Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"

"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“I am Abhorsen…"
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

p. 14.
Source: "I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen..."
He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel."

Baby