Quotes about look
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“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”

Robert Frank (1924–2019) American photographer and filmmaker

“When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
"When I have fears that I may cease to be" (1817)
Source: The Complete Poems

Love, Books, World, Fear

“Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.”

Tamora Pierce book Bloodhound

Source: Bloodhound

Help

“Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up”

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

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

People

“I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Girl

“Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States

Way, Travel, Photo, Nature

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Flying

“Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Way

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Way

“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”

Milorad Pavić (1929–2009) Serbian writer

Books, Housing

“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.
Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.”

Christopher Paolini book Eldest

Source: Eldest

“no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Hell, Teachers

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Yukio Mishima book Thirst for Love

Source: Thirst for Love

Life, Fear, Art

“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Girl, Sister

“Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Pain, Angels

“The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say `When!”

P.G. Wodehouse book Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

Clothes

“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. It is as though mankind had divided itself between those who believe in human omnipotence (who think that everything is possible if one knows how to organize masses for it) and those for whom powerlessness has become the major experience of their lives.”

Hannah Arendt book The Origins of Totalitarianism

Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism

Thinking, Sense, Future, Dependency

“I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

Water

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Love, Kiss

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Beauty

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist

BBC obituary (2004)

love, Wise, Love, Forgiveness

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

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

Variant: [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
Source: Role Models

Money, Books, Home, Freedom

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Interesting Times

Source: Interesting Times

Stupidity, Way

“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita

Source: Lolita

Love, Hope, Imagination

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

Question

“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

Time, Sun

“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you… Look.”

Sarah Waters book Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

God, Faith, Beauty, Courage

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Source: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Travel, Home

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Thinking

“Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.”

Tamora Pierce book Street Magic

Source: Street Magic

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Life, Understanding

“If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Understanding, Change, Help

“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
Attributed

Time

“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

Wisdom

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

Change

“A very magnanimous statement, Gideon,” said Magnus.
“I’m Gabriel.”
Magnus waved a hand. “All Lightwoods look the same to me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

A Drinking Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1399/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

Love, Truth, Wine

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

Life, World, Beauty, Understanding

“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”

Walter Benjamin book Theses on the Philosophy of History

Source: Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), IX

Angels, History, Past, Future

“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Way

“It was quite impossible to describe.

Here is what it looked like.

It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

Way, Thinking, Suffering, Time

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

Soul

“I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.”

Kristin Cast book Hunted

Source: Hunted

“A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Star

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Love

“The universe is always speaking to us…. Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.”

Nancy Thayer (1943) American novelist

Universe

“Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

People

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

Inspirational, Happy, Wise, Deep

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice

Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Death, Wise

“In his early twenties, a man started collecting paintings, many of which later became famous: Picasso, Van Gogh, and others. Over the decades he amassed a wonderful collection. Eventually, the man’s beloved son was drafted into the military and sent to Vietnam, where he died while trying to save his friend. About a month after the war ended, a young man knocked on the devastated father’s door. “Sir,” he said, “I know that you like great art, and I have brought you something not very great.” Inside the package, the father found a portrait of his son. With tears running down his cheeks, the father said, “I want to pay you for this.ℍ “No,” the young man replied, “he saved my life. You don’t owe me anything.ℍ The father cherished the painting and put it in the center of his collection. Whenever people came to visit, he made them look at it. When the man died, his art collection went up for sale. A large crowd of enthusiastic collectors gathered. First up for sale was the amateur portrait. A wave of displeasure rippled through the crowd. “Let’s forget about that painting!” one said. “We want to bid on the valuable ones,” said another. Despite many loud complaints, the auctioneer insisted on starting with the portrait. Finally, the deceased man’s gardener said, “I’ll bid ten dollars.ℍ Hearing no further bids, the auctioneer called out, “Sold for ten dollars!” Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But then the auctioneer said, “And that concludes the auction.” Furious gasps shook the room. The auctioneer explained, “Let me read the stipulation in the will: “Sell the portrait of my son first, and whoever buys it gets the entire art collection. Whoever takes my son gets everything.ℍ It’s the same way with God Almighty. Whoever takes his Son gets everything.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, War, People

“I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love, Way

“By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

Because I looked for it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Dancing Men

Source: The Adventure of the Dancing Men

“Don't look back!"
"Why not?"
"Because I just did! Run faster!”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.

Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh.

I really hate it when girls do that. I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.”

P. C. Cast book Marked

Source: Marked

Hate, Girl, Waiting

“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Personality

“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

World

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

Roald Dahl book The Witches

"The Heart of a Mouse"
Source: The Witches (1983)

Love

“When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”

David Levithan book Another Day

Source: Another Day

Love, Death, Thinking, Time

“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Angels, Hell

“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again…”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

Source: Ghost Writer

Life

“I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.”

Megan McDonald (1959) American children's literature author

Source: The Sisters Club

Love, Way

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Drawing

“WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.”

Terry Pratchett book The Truth

Source: The Truth

Death, Men, Evil, Heart

“That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Jace and Isabelle, pg. 155
Variant: "That does it, I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?"
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Christmas