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Quotes About Gaze

experiments have shown that players rely on several heuristics. The gaze heuristic is the simplest one and works if the ball is already high up in the air: Fix your gaze on the ball, start running, and adjust your running speed so that the angle of gaze remains constant.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He bent and put his lips to the spurt, drinking noiselessly, and then he sat up again and drew his shirt sleeve across his mouth. As he did this, he turned his face in her direction—and their eyes met. For a long moment they looked at each other in silence, the boy with his arm still raised to his mouth. Neither of them moved. At last his arm fell to his side. "You may as well come out," he said, with a frown.
~ Natalie Babbitt
When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Milestone! This is a momentous occasion, he tells her cheerily. It should be witnessed by a friend. She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.
~ Neal Shusterman
Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.
~ Neal Shusterman
And when the abyss looks into you—and it will—may you look back unflinching.
~ Neal Shusterman
Your eyes, brilliant as shop windows Or as blazing lamp-stands at public festivals, Insolently use a borrowed power Without ever knowing the law of their beauty.   Blind
~ Charles Baudelaire
THE CAT Come, superb cat, to my amorous heart; Hold back the talons of your paws, Let me gaze into your beautiful eyes Of metal and agate. When my fingers leisurely caress you, Your head and your elastic back, And when my hand tingles with the pleasure Of feeling your electric body, In spirit I see my woman. Her gaze Like your own, amiable beast, Profound and cold, cuts and cleaves like a dart, And, from her head down to her feet, A subtle air, a dangerous perfume Floats about her dusky body.
~ Charles Baudelaire
İşte onlar gibi biri, Venüs heykelinin altl???na büzülmüÅŸ, ölümsüz tanr?çaya bak?p gözyaÅŸlar? döküyor... Gel gör ki insafs?z Venüs, uzaklara bilmediÄŸim bir ÅŸeylere bak?yor mermer gözleriyle.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever.
~ Charles Bukowski
the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
~ Charles Bukowski
La miré. Todo el cielo y toda la tierra corrían por aquellos ojos.
~ Charles Bukowski
two hollow emptinesses looking into each other
~ Charles Bukowski
She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.
~ Charles Stross
Jedi Skywalker; remember it well. For if you allow your justice to be forgotten, you will be forced to repeat the same lessons again and again." He held Luke's gaze a pair
~ Timothy Zahn
The maitrakh met her gaze steadily, her alien face unreadable. 'Are you offering me your help?' Leia asked. 'There is honor in you, Lady Vader,' the maitrakh said, her voice quiet. 'For the life and honor of my thirdson, I will go with you. Perhaps we will die together.' Leia nodded, her heart aching. 'Perhaps we will.
~ Timothy Zahn
Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.
~ Toni Morrison
Her eyes, fixed on the window, are so expressionless he is not sure she will know who he is. There is too much light here in this room. Things look sold.
~ Toni Morrison
Wat hij deed (...) stanste het glanzende ijzer uit Sethes ogen, zodat er twee putten overbleven die de gloed van het vuur niet weerkaatsten.
~ Toni Morrison
Maureen appeared at my elbow, and the boys seemed reluctant to continue under her springtime eyes so wide with interest. They buckled in confusion, not willing to beat up three girls under her watchful gaze. So they listened to a budding male instinct that told them to pretend we were unworthy of their attention.
~ Toni Morrison
What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another's interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure.
~ Tracy Chevalier
En el comedor se hizo un silencio sepulcral—susurró Xemerius desde la araña—. Todas las miradas apuntaban a la muchacha de la blusa amarillo pipí...
~ Kerstin Gier