Quotes about look
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“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Family

“He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hunger

“The better you look, the more you see.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama

Source: Glamorama

“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Life, Way, Suffering

“Well, I didn't need them.
I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose.
I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.”

Jacqueline Wilson book Lola Rose

Source: Lola Rose

Idea

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Heart

“Would like to join me? (Astrid)
I think I’d look strange in a bikini. (Zarek)
Was that a joke? Can it be you made a real joke? (Astrid)
Yeah, I must be possessed or something. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Thinking

“She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again.
A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hate, Smile

“That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

See also the Wikipedia article on the Lake Wobegon effect.
A Prairie Home Companion, News from Lake Wobegon

Women, Men, Children, Strong

“Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.”

Sheri Reynolds (1967) American writer

Source: A Gracious Plenty

Truth, Hurt

“Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

God

“open your eyes^_^
and look within….
are you satisfied with the life,
…….. U are liVing?????????”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

Life

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1

“Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. Afterkiss, shouldn’t she be fainting at his feet? But she’s grinning.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Way

“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”

Mary Renault book The Persian Boy

Source: The Persian Boy

“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Beauty, Parting

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Lovers, Bird

“undying grattitude?" Simon looked at me. " Cool. Dosethat come with eternal servitude? if so, i like my eggs sunnyside up."
i smiled," i'll remember that.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Smile

“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Boy

“Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”
“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Alloy of Law

Thinking, Help

“Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Girl, Boy

“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

Madness

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Feeling, Home, Change

“You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?"
He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Girl

“Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity…”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

People

“I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Photo, Girl, Kiss

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Understanding, Country

“Good memories are like charms… Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Color, Memory

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Love

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Sister, Country

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Sun

“My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Moms

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care

Life, Art

“Nah. I got it. Just try not to stake Jean-Luc again if you meet up with him. (Acheron)
I can’t help it. All you fanged people look alike in the dark. (Tabitha)
Yeah. I know what you mean. All you soul-full people look alike to us, too. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

People, Soul, Help

“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”

Margaret George book The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Strong

“Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Gunmetal Magic

Way

“Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

Light

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Strong, Victory

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

“Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Life

“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Search, Cats, Thinking

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

God, Heart, Indifference

“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib

God, Silence

“Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."
Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked.
"Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Time

“I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons."
"CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.
Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl,"
-pg. 214”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Girl

“The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Life, Effort

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Change

“I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Love, People

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Youth

““Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.”
“Not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “You wonder how they vanished so quickly.””

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

“Introduction”, p. 8
Source: I, Robot (1950)

Time

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

World

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

Sarah Ruhl Eurydice

Source: Eurydice

Love, Beauty, Housing

“That hat looks ridiculous.”
“Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Alloy of Law

Change

“I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Shoe

“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.”

Thomas H. Cook (1947) American writer

Source: Master of the Delta

Question, Heart

“Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

“Look no farther than your hand,
Make a choice and take a stand.”

Shannon Hale Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

“Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: No Mercy

Life, People, Time

“I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Way, Time

“I looked up to find a slim blond figure standing in the doorway to the kitchen. For a frozen second, I looked at him and he looked at me, and then I screamed and threw my coffee, which hit him square in the groin.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Coffee

“Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Why I Wake Early

Love, Parting

“Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say,
"Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Feeling

“But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Kiss, Personality

“Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)”

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

Sleep, Study

“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."

That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Waiting

“Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Evil

“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“You look too pretty to be useful.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Variant: You look too pretty to be useful."

"Truer words were never spoken.
Source: Bloodlines

“Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love", Jonas whispered.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Love, Sleep

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Thinking

“Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life, Time

“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Candy

People, Joy, Flying, Madness

“I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.”
“Yes,” Amos said.
“Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said.
Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

As quoted in The Lost Art of General Management (2004) by Rob Waite, p. 96
Context: Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”

People, Success, Help

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

World, Time

“For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Lost Herondale

Love, Family, Girl, Time

“I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta)
Yeah, right. (Aiden)
Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Upon the Midnight Clear

Way

“The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Love

“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Past, Housing

“Coyote to Mercy:

"I didn't know about you until a lot later. Then I stopped to check you out. You looked happy running with the wolves. They looked bewildered- which is as it should be when a coyote plays with wolves.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Happiness

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Hope, Way, Past, Joy

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts

“For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look…" Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt.
"Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

Clothes