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Quotes About Gaze

when her eyes shifted to him, it was a repeat of
~ Sandra Brown
His eyes reconnected with hers, and she wondered if he remembered that they were an unusual shade of gray, which most people found arresting and which lying witnesses found disconcerting. When his gaze lowered
~ Sandra Brown
Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.
~ Sappho
As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.
~ Sarah Dessen
Mew, the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was comfortable, and you dared to move,' those jade eyes said. 'For that you must die.' When it became apparent to the cat that its two or three pounds of mass were insufficient to break Locke's neck with one mighty snap, it put its paws on his shoulders and began sharing its drool-covered nose with his lips. He recoiled.
~ Scott Lynch
I watched Charlotte's eyes. They wandered from one to the other; but they did not light on me, on me, who stood there motionless, and who saw nothing but her!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jakie? maj? prawo Do mnie te gwiazdy na górze ?e si? na mnie gapi??
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
~ John Berger
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
~ John Berger
A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at
~ John Berger
Men watch. Women watch themselves being watched.
~ John Berger
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves
~ John Berger
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
~ John Berger
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed is female. Thus she turns herself into an object of vision: a sight.
~ John Berger
gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.
~ John Connolly
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
~ John Donne
Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.
~ John Dryden
Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.
~ Louie Giglio
Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.
~ Elif Batuman
Thy left eye sees not right.
~ Anthony Liccione
The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; it is an eye because it sees you.
~ Antonio Machado
Beatriz. Me la quedé mirando, y me enamoré de ella. Neruda se rascó su plácida calvicie con el dorso del lápiz. -Tan rápido. -No, tan rápido no. Me la quedé mirando como diez minutos.
~ Antonio Skármeta
poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be 'looking at you'.
~ Anupama Chopra
My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.
~ Celine Sciamma