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Quotes About Glance

Horace glanced uncertainly at Halt. But the Ranger was already reaching up to push the cowl back from his face. As he did so, Horace glanced at the King once more. He was frowning. Something was familiar about the roughly dressed figure before him, but he couldn't quite . . . "Hello, brother," Halt said quietly.
~ John Flanagan
Will glanced down at the dog, who was looking up at him, her tail moving slowly. It seemed she was quite content to see the arrow hit Buttle anywhere at all, he mused.
~ John Flanagan
Twas Morgan's protest and the Mebd silenced her with a glance.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Will glanced over his shoulder, and saw Kit's eyes drop a second too late to hide the intensity of his regard. Relief and pity warred in him, and a cold white flame he knew for bitter, possessive love.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She cast a glance at Sayeh that raked Sayeh like a tiger's claws and sketched a plausible courtesy before Anuraja. It wasn't much of a courtesy.
~ Elizabeth Bear
They laughed every time they accidentally looked at each other.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The blue flecks in his hazel eyes seemed brighter than green, momentarily, and Muire glanced down at the platter.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Mebd glanced over at her sister Morgan, and the two women shared an enigmatic smile.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Your eyes are the shade of intelligence, able to pierce a man's heart with merely a glance. As they have done so to mine.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
~ Emma Donoghue
Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
~ George Eliot
it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
~ George Eliot
There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and loving human soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice and kindle charity than the most elaborate arguments.
~ George Eliot
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
~ Robert Smithson
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance
~ Aristotle
Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.
~ R.L. LaFevers
You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.
~ Marguerite Duras
moment to survey one another. Hopper looked
~ Marisha Pessl
Thorn swept a speculative glance over Nick's body. "My girl's calling you a liar." "If my girl was here, she'd be calling you an idiot." Thorn growled. Nick growled back. Caleb laughed at them both. "Simi, we should be filming this. We could make a killing on it." "Already recorded, akri-demon. Just let the Simi know whenever you want the full-color playback.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance in which tenderness and apprehension were great and indivisible, giving unbearable, excessive immediacy to the living of these moments. Paul had seen that look before, when they first lay down together at the inn beyond Avebury Circle.
~ Shirley Hazzard
The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
~ Shirley Jackson
My poor stricken country needs the co-operation of America. We look to you--and if you do not give back the glance we shall have to look to Russia.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.
~ Ellery Queen
Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.
~ Émile Zola