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Quotes About Stare

In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.
~ Michael Crichton
He would look Piggy Bacon straight in the eye
~ Michael Morpurgo
life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.
~ Billy Collins
The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andreievich stared ahead of him out of the window, as if he were not looking at the snow but were still reading Tonia's letter and as if what flickered past him were not small dry snow crystals but the spaces between the small black letters, white, white, endless, endless.
~ Boris Pasternak
Normally a prolonged stare from a gorilla is a threat. But Digit's gaze bore no aggression. He seemed to say: I know. Dian would later write that she believed Digit understood she was sick.
~ Sy Montgomery
I was busy falling in love at first sight. So I had to stare. That's what you do when you're falling in love at first sight. You go into soft focus, and romantic music starts playing in the background.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
I watched him take a drink, swirl it around in his mouth like a fine wine, and then swallow it. The working of his throat made me hot, but that was nothing compared to what the intensity of his stare did to me. "Not bad," he murmured. "Tell me if we made it right." He kissed me.
~ Sylvia Day
I stared at him over the rim of my mug and didn't say anything. Gideon shoved his shirttails into his slacks with obvious frustration. Fine. Thank you. You could refrain from grinning like the Cheshire cat, he muttered.
~ Sylvia Day
He stared at me. You have a sexual fantasy in which I'm a virgin?.
~ Sylvia Day
At the essential landscape stare, stare Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind: Whatever lost ghosts flare, Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor Rave on the leash of the starving mind Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.
~ Sylvia Plath
I was quite proud of the calm way I stared at all these gruesome things.
~ Sylvia Plath
staring intently at the
~ Frederick Forsyth
The strangest thing of all for Milly was perhaps the uplifted assurance and indifference with which she could simply give back the particular bland stare that appeared in such cases to mark civilisation at its highest. It
~ Henry James
All my life had taken refuge in my eyes, which the procession of events appeared to have committed itself to keep astare
~ Henry James
But we've so befogged and befouled the whole question of liberty, of spontaneity, of good humour, and inclination, and enjoyment, that there's nothing that makes people stare so as to see on natural.
~ Henry James
It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer infinity. Every stare revealed inky black abyss with a hint of divinity.
~ Hubert Martin
My desire is to preserve the sense of people's lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
~ Nan Goldin
She fixed him with a long careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle
~ Milan Kundera
Me mira fijamente, y la mirada que le devuelvo es el principio de todo, y me imagino el futuro: ¿Por qué me odias?, imagino que dice la voz angustiada de una chica. ¿Qué te he hecho?, imagino que grita otra persona.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension.
~ Terry Pratchett
He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's rude to stare, said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. Is it? Why? asked Rincewind. How does he hold himself together, his mind screamed at him. Why doesn't he spill?
~ Terry Pratchett
He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.
~ Terry Pratchett
She knew Rollo was trying to intimidate her with the evil eye. Rattle the cop, throw her off balance. He was like too many other assholes she'd known, and his stare was nothing new. Just the last resort of a loser.
~ Tess Gerritsen