Quotes About Glance

Thieves, spies, lovers, diplomats, and slaves of any kind alone know the resources and comforts of a glance. They alone know what it contains of meaning, sweetness, thought, anger, villainy, displayed by the modification of that ray of light which conveys the soul.

Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.

A glance out the window showed the police car's headlights glowing lemon through the violet-hued dusk

Any glance in Mother's direction had to be taken on the sly. Her mental faculties had dwindled away, but at the same time her radar for gawking had apparently become hypersensitive. A gaze that lingered on her much more than a nanosecond would set her off. "What in hell are you lookin' at, Miss Smarty Pants?" And then she'd throw in a half dozen or so swear words that Thea wasn't even aware her mother knew.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

The gun then,' I said. She was a woman but she was Texan. She would know about shotguns. 'You must have given that more than a glance. You had it in your hands for most of the day.

Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.

When I glanced back at the plane, the pilot's open mouth appeared to be smiling.

Only once did McMurdo see him, a sly, little gray-haired rat of a man, with a slinking gait and a sidelong glance which was charged with malice.

which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft

She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

He shrugged. "Let's see if I can verify your guess, Dr. Glendale." "Nicholas or Nick, please. Not—" He flashed a warning glance at Helen, but too late. "—Nicky!" she interjected. "Okay

Stormfur stopped short when he noticed a glow of admiration in Feathertail's eyes.

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

He stood looking up at her; it was not a glance, but an act of ownership. She thought she must let her face give him the answer he deserved. But she was looking, instead, at the stone dust on his burned arms, the wet shirt clinging to his ribs, the lines of his long legs. She was thinking of those statues of men she had always sought; she was wondering what he would look like naked. She saw him looking at her as if he knew that.

It was a strange glance; she had noticed it before; a glance of simple worship. And it made her realize that there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.

His glance was like a plea, like the cry for help of a man who could never cry.

Roark looked at him and understood. Roark inclined his head in agreement; he could acknowledge what Cameron had just declared to him only by a quiet glance as solemn as Cameron's.

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. A year passes and you know you feel differently, but you're not sure what or why or how, so your mind casts back for something that might give that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.

He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked in the opposite direction, I would have read it as a lie.

big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room.

Leafpool glanced at Jayfeather, amusement flashing in her gaze. "That might not go down too well in the medicine den.