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Quotes About Gaze

It is a game, my love." He held her gaze. "It is the most serious game I've ever engaged in. And I intend to win it. I will have you back, Isabella—in my life, in my house, and in my bed.
~ Jennifer Ashley
At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.
~ Jennifer Birkett
What moved Ted, mashed some delicate glassware in his chest, was the quiet of their interaction, the absence of drama or tears as they gazed at each other, touching gently.
~ Jennifer Egan
He had been amused, and sometimes stimulated, and once or twice rather attracted, but he had never been stirred as this honest, laughing Virginia girl had stirred him, with her level green gaze and her odd little dignity, and her sweet reposefulness which was just her breeding.
~ Elswyth Thane
Vous ne le voyez pas, lorsqu'il baisse lentement les paupières, comme pour éteindre ses yeux.
~ Émile Zola
Laurent sollevò il capo e si vide davanti Thérèse, zitta, immobile. La giovane donna lo guardava con una fissità ardente. Di un nero opaco i suoi occhi sembravano due cavità abissali; attraverso le labbra socchiuse si intravedevano nella bocca rosei luccicori. Era come annientata, rattrappita su se stessa; ascoltava.
~ Émile Zola
The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave the impression of looking at the objects around her: they appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond—you would have said out of this world.
~ Emily Bronte
He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears, or render my hilarity audible.
~ Emily Bronte
E então a encarou de maneira tão detida que imaginei que a simples intensidade daquele olhar estivesse enchendo-lhe os olhos de lágrimas; mas a angústia as queimava antes que escorressem.
~ Emily Bronte
He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
~ Emily Bronte
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it? was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
~ Emily Bronte
A heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another's eyes.
~ Emily Dickinson
death's stiff stare
~ Emily Dickinson
My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
~ Emily Giffin
I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!
~ Enid Blyton
into his eyes. 'They don't
~ Enid Blyton
I saw him. I smiled at him. I looked into his eyes and he looks at mine... Oh, I feel like I'm falling in love with him all over again. ?
~ Amber
Bir ÅŸehirden geriye, yar? sarhoÅŸ bir ÅŸairin onun üzerinde dolaÅŸan umursamaz bak??lar?ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey kalmaz.
~ Amin Maalouf
Got lost in your eyes,
~ Amy Lane
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
~ André Bazin
She looks at Laura. Their eyes meet.
~ Andrea Cheng
But would the morning sun rise if I could not look on Michael's face? Page 44
~ Andrea Levy
Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars
~ Andrew Fisher
There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China.
~ Ken Liu