Quotes about look
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“Until meeting you, I wasn’t looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I’m kind of looking for a girlfriend.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Harvest Moon

“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 2

Thinking

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.
"They're for you."
"You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Coffee

“I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.”

Maeve Binchy book Tara Road

Source: Tara Road

People, Thinking

“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Clothes

“I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Understanding

“He didn't look back. He never did”

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

“Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Life, Feeling, Search

“Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me
Belly to belly and knee to knee
Who’ll look into my hooded eye
Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: Collected Poems 1947-1997

Lie

“The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Life, Happiness

“It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

People, Way

“Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

“The analogy he is looking for is almost there. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Life

“Don’t.” She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. “You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you’re never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

Way, Feeling, Heart

“You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

Thinking, Effort

“He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Time

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 3
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

Way, Thinking, Science

“An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.”

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Alcohol, Lie, Help

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Reality

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Heart

“Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Life, People, Waiting

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Thinking

“Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!”

Anthony Horowitz book Skeleton Key

Source: Skeleton Key

Boy

“Is it my birthday again? Already? Wherethe time go?"
"Behind us --or in front. It depends on which way you are looking.”

David Eddings book Belgarath the Sorcerer

Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer

Way, Birthday, Time, Dependency

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Sadness, Feeling

“Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for. […]”

David Eddings book The Diamond Throne

Source: The Diamond Throne

Drink, Heart

“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the demons in the outer dark
Look on amazed and recognize
That vengeance is the business of a man.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 323)

Business

“Will looked as if she had slpped him. "I didn't do it so you'd be grateful!"
"Then what?" Her voice rose. "You did it because it's your mandate? Because the law says-"
"I did it because I love you!”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Law

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Life, Death

“I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Feeling, Courage, Parent, Hurt

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

“ Young People and the Church http://books.google.com/books?id=iu4nAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA310&dq=%22There+are+two+beings%22“ (13 October 1904) Variant: If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. 1900s Context: There are two beings who assess character instantly by looking into the eyes,—dogs and children. If a dog not naturally possessed of the devil will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience; and if a little child, from any other reason than mere timidity, looks you in the face, and then draws back and will not come to your knee, go home and look deeper yet into your conscience.

Dogs, Home

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Life

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”

Helen Hooven Santmyer (1895–1986) American novelist

Way, Memory, Time

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”

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

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Time, Training

“This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?”
“I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.”
It didn’t.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Thinking, Reading

“I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach.” His hand cupped my breast, gently now. “I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“… when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Pain, Pleasure, Decision, Learning

“What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn’t smile at his captors like that.
“I’m just making sure I can remember you,” Gilan told him. “Never know when that might be useful.”

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

Source: Erak's Ransom

Smile

“Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Reading

“Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Everlasting

Change

“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

Life, Effort, Water, Dance

“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

Beauty, Forgetting

“She won't give him back his look.”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral

Source: Cathedral

“I can see! So this is the sky! So this is blood! So this is the world! So this is what you look like, Komamura. You are uglier than I thought." -Kaname Tousen (I'm sorry to say but this quote had me laughing so much XD)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

World, Quotes

“You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hate

“It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“And let’s be honest, you weren’t exactly harmed. I even took you home.” “You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead.” “Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most.” I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Home, Dead

“Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Pain, Light, Madness

“Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Dreams, Future

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Time, Night

“Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

People, Way, Thinking

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”

Joan Didion (1934) American writer

Past, Future

“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

“It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Way, Suicide

“The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink COW milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!'?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

Guy, Drink, Thinking

“I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?"

There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out."

"Let me know when you're sure."

"Would you say yes?" Morelli asked.

"I'm not sure.”

Janet Evanovich book Fearless Fourteen

Source: Fearless Fourteen

Silence

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Truth, Fools

“The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.”

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

In Churchill by Himself (2008), Appendix I: Red Herrings, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 577 ISBN 1586486381; “Commonly ascribed to WSC, even by The Queen (Christmas Message, 1999). What Churchill actually said was ‘The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward’”. The attribution of the mistaken form of the quote to Churchill dates from at least 1959 https://books.google.com/books?id=QN3hAAAAMAAJ&dq=The+farther+backward+you+look%2C+the+further+forward+you+can+see&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22backward+you+can+look%22. Misattributed

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)

Future

“I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.”

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

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Love

“Please," said Lirael…"I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Lirael

Girl, Thinking

“No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

World, Thinking

“I don't think there is such a thing as
an intelligent mega-rich
person.

For who with a fine mind can look
out upon this world and
hoard

what can nourish
a thousand
souls.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

World, Soul, Intelligence, Thinking

“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 3.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798), Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Context: That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,
And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts
Have followed; for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant recompence. For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,—both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.