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Quotes About Looking

Appreciating the beauty of crusty loaves does not preclude our interest in a château, but failing to do so must call into question our overall capacity for appreciation. The gap between what the dissatisfied youth could see in his flat and what Chardin noticed in very similar interiors places the emphasis on a certain way of looking, as opposed to a mere process of acquiring or possessing.
~ Alain de Botton
Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I'm lying on a planet. It's so wide. So infinite -Belly Conklin
~ Jenny Han
Was now the time to look forward to the doom of parting, and stop looking back at the doom of meeting?
~ Eudora Welty
I build each one of my days out of hope and I give that hope your name 'cause I know there is strength in the differences between us and I know there is comfort where we overlap come here stand in front of the light stand still so I can see your sillouette I hope you have got all night 'cause I'm not done looking, no, I'm not done looking yet
~ Ani DiFranco
Besides, kindness, of the same undiscriminating sort, is not what one is looking for in a man, though perhaps it should be. One rather looks for its opposite, a certain combative excitement. Now I had captive in my own home a man who had probably never understood this.
~ Anita Brookner
I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
~ Anita Loos
Because I decided not to read the book by Mr. Cellini. I mean it was quite amuseing in spots because it was really quite riskay but the spots were not so close together and I never seem to like to always be hunting clear through a book for the spots I am looking for, especially when there are really not so many spots that seem to be so amuseing after all.
~ Anita Loos
Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.
~ Katherine Harris
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
~ Ed Harris
He is strangely attractive, isn't he? Bit beaten-up-looking, but I've never minded that.
~ Robert Galbraith
As his appointment with death grew closer, Fish told reporters that he was looking forward to his execution. "It will be the only thrill I have not tried," he is reported to have said.
~ Robert Keller
and I could not think of giving an answer until I have looked over the books of the firm and have some idea of the business and of the methods by which it is done.
~ Ron Chernow
We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.
~ Leif Enger
We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking?
~ Leif Enger
But all I can say is our future is airborne. I never saw a winter so blue. We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.
~ Leif Enger
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.
~ Lewis Carroll
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
~ Thomas Merton
We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.
~ Ronald Reagan
A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...
~ Alexandre Dumas
It might take so.e time to get used to cooking with a stupid, dead fish looking on. Close To Famous
~ Joan Bauer
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
~ Anne Carson
there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking — and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? — glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
~ Ed Wood