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Quotes About Stare

She had a stare that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from me.
~ Alice Sebold
I saw everything fresh, and with wonder that I was in America at all. If a white person was rude I simply turned and stared. I never acknowledged the system that sanctioned rude behavior, but always responded directly to the person. How uncivilly you have been brought up! was the message of my stare.
~ Alice Walker
She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt. 'Where are your gods now?' she said.
~ Joel Shepherd
Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize;
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
~ Edmund Morris
Eyeball to eyeball.
~ Anonymous
Roger didn't feel like laughing anymore when Mrs. Patman fixed her icy gaze on him.
~ Francine Pascal
The eyes of someone you kill are immortal, if they face you at the fatal instant. They have a terrible black color. They shake you more than the streams of blood and the death rattles, even in a great turmoil of dying. The eyes of the killed, for the killer, are his calamity if he looks into them. They are the blame of the person he kills.
~ Francine Prose
I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, 'Hmmm, maybe not today.' I hate being cold.
~ Chloe Kim
Jack just stood there, looking at Ian. He lifted one brow. "Your girl, huh?" he asked. "I was just talking to the kid," Ian said. "Uh-huh. You better head for home, pal.
~ Robyn Carr
I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone's gaze to follow you through the hallways as though you were marked by tragedy and no longer belonged. And I could understand why she hadn't wanted that.
~ Robyn Schneider
He observed Morel with a cameraman's cold, professional stare, trying to decide why he found the man so French; he decided that it was a certain dark cheerfulness, a mixture of anger and irony, the voice and its drawling Parisian accent, and the line of the mouth which somehow always seemed to call for a Gauloise bleue.
~ Romain Gary
I stared at him; he seemed to relish my astonishment.
~ Machado de Assis
We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
when her eyes shifted to him, it was a repeat of
~ Sandra Brown
Honestly, I said. What? Come on. You have to admit it's sort of ridiculous. What is? Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. You know, I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. The sa-woon. The what? Wes, come on, I said. Are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you?
~ Sarah Dessen
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.He thought they were old friends.
~ John Berryman
God is raising up a people who have the boldness of the Holy Spirit, and who will, in humility, stare the enemy in the face and renounce him and his strategies! It's time to tear down our father's altars! The coming Church will be an altar-destroying Church!
~ John Burton
It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His
~ John Connolly
life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.
~ Billy Collins
She stared in shock. There was nobody there!
~ Anne Digby
with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.
~ Anne Rice
He came towards Maharet, staring intently at her, at her smooth face which now bore no trace whatever of human life, the florid human eyes seemingly set within a sculpture.
~ Anne Rice
I stared at my Master. Never had I seen him so lovely as now when he was flushed with this new blood. I wanted to touch him. I wanted to go into his arms. His eyes were drunken and soft as he looked at me. But he broke off his seductive stare and went back to the table, and around it properly, and stood beside the man who had feasted on the joint.
~ Anne Rice