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Quotes About Staring

Surely doctors saw nothing but the eyes of their patient's family: the staring, pleading eyes that waited to hear what sentence would be pronounced on their loved one.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
to truly guarantee that we didn't have another catastrophic oil spill in the future was to stop drilling entirely; but that wasn't going to happen because at the end of the day we Americans loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face;
~ Barack Obama
Spire peered past him, staring directly at the dark gray tom-kit. His fur ruffled along his spine. "This one will see into the shadows.
~ Erin Hunter
Firepaw was sure now. It was a ShadowClan warrior, and it was staring straight at him.
~ Erin Hunter
I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
~ Ernest Cline
The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.
~ Erving Goffman
Yay!" I say for the both of us, since Jack is now sleepily staring into his coffee mug.
~ Erynn Mangum
He stood back smiling while they shook hands and murmured politely, and Amelia, meeting the Dutchman's sleepy gaze, had a sudden strange feeling, as though everything had changed; that nothing would ever be the same again; that there was no one else there, only herself and this giant of a man, still staring at her.
~ Betty Neels
Even on tour, I spend two hours a night singing songs and the rest of the time staring at the back of people's heads on airplanes, some fat guy coughing on me.
~ Mark Kozelek
Yeah, that sure was Mace Llewellyn staring at her from the other side of her desk. Just staring. Like he used to. Like he knew where she'd buried the bodies of all her goldfish after their unfortunate "accidents" or what she did with her sisters' toothbrushes on more than one occasion.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Neither of these staring experiences was erotic for me, but they may have been for the two young men who did the staring. Who I was for either of them remains a mystery to me, a blank filled with my own dread.
~ Siri Hustvedt
It wasn't just that Mr. Beaumont and his creepy staring was freaking me out. And it wasn't that my dad's warning was ringing in my ears. My mediator instincts were telling me to get out, now. And when my instincts tell me to do something, I usually obey. I have often found it beneficial to my health.
~ Meg Cabot
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them. They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.
~ Susanna Clarke
I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. "Hey, this is The Long Goodbye ." Jake opened his eyes. "What?" "This movie. It's Robert Altman's take on Chandler's The Long Goodbye . 'Nothing says good-bye like a bullet.'" "I don't know," said Jake. "Sometimes the words are enough.
~ Josh Lanyon
Linney stood in a deserted marble hall of Montagu House, Bloomsbury, in which the British Museum was kept, staring at the Rosetta Stone.
~ Julia Quinn
Why are you staring at me?" she'd ask. "'Cause you're pretty," I'd reply. "You're the first one who's ever said that." "I'm the only one who knows," I'd tell her. "And believe me, I know.
~ Haruki Murakami
I noticed for the first time that his expression was completely changed - strangely expressionless, eyes out of focus. He seemed to be staring into a void.
~ Haruki Murakami
This is the best thing I've ever eaten." He pauses for a drink, staring at me over the rim of his glass of juice. " It's the provolone," I say, swallowing my last bite. "It's the chef.
~ Sophie Jordan
He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.
~ Stella Gibbons
The accent was of so weird a lilt that at first Steerpike could not recognize more than one sentence in three, but he had quickly attuned himself to the original cadence and as the words fell into place Steerpike realized that he was staring at a poet.
~ Mervyn Peake
When she caught him staring, he would even more artlessly look down at the food on his plate with a show of puzzlement, as if he kept forgetting what supper was and how it was supposed to work.
~ Michael Chabon
That night they slept restlessly and, as he had predicted, Elric screamed agonizingly in his turbulent, terror-filled sleep and he called a name which made Shaarilla's eyes fill with pain and jealousy. Wide-eyed in his grim sleep, Elric seemed to be staring at the one he named, speaking other words in a sibilant language which made Shaarilla block her ears and shudder.
~ Michael Moorcock