Quotes about look page 6
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
101 Best Ways to Get Ahead: Solid Gold Advice from 101 of the World's Most Successful People (2004) by Michael E. Angier and Sarah Pond, p. 30
1990s
“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/ <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions
“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Glaedr
Variant: Learn to see what you are looking at.
Source: Inheritance (2011)
Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed
Source: Iron Kissed
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
Stephen King book The Green Mile
Source: The Green Mile
Hubert Selby Jr. book Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night
Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Variant: Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse
Source: To the Lighthouse
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”
Stephen King book The Long Walk
Source: The Long Walk
“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65
Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Source: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges
“Tatiana: "Alexander, were you looking for me?"
Alexander: "All my life.”
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Variant: Alexander, were you looking for me?"
"All my life.
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”
Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
Emile Zola book Germinal
Source: Germinal
“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Chuck Close (1940–2021) American artist
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics
“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Conversation with private secretary John Hay (23 December 1863), describing a dream Lincoln had that evening, in Abraham Lincoln : A History (1890) by John Hay
Posthumous attributions