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Quotes About Gaze

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
~ Garrison Keillor
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
~ Ovid
What are you looking at?" she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.
~ Pete Wentz
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
~ John Dryden
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
~ Theophile Gautier
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.
~ Kenneth Patchen
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
Suddenly, I find the most beautiful smiles in your eyes.
~ Debasish Mridha
The sun gave us our eyes to see the beauty of nature, his creation, through his light.
~ Debasish Mridha
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.'
~ Will Schwalbe
Love comes in at the eye.
~ William Butler Yeats
The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
~ William Cullen Bryant
The man wore a dark fedora and beneath its brim the fierce empty eyes looked out as if they were coming from a thousand miles away, and were off immediately another thousand in some other direction.
~ William Gay
I like your eyes when you get mad," I said. "They glow like embers.
~ William Hjortsberg
C'est à cet instant précis qu'il la regarde, enfin.
~ David Foenkinos
Il la regarda comme si elle était un effraction de la réalité.
~ David Foenkinos
Debo confesarle que no estoy aquí por casualidad. Me condujo su mirada. Cuando me lo cruzo en el ascensor, usted tiene una forma extraña de mirarme. Una mirada absolutamente neutra.
~ David Foenkinos
I saw her eyes and then it no longer mattered how neat and tidy she looked. What I saw was lethal. Her eyes were jet black.
~ David Lagercrantz
She looked toward the window, smiling away her life
~ David Leavitt
Given Fanon's subsequent traumatic encounter with the white gaze ('Look, maman, a negro'), it is ironic that it was he and Manville who gazed at the children and could not take their eyes off them. They had never seen a girl with truly red hair, or such a blond boy, and they were fascinated.
~ David Macey
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
~ Zora Neale Hurston