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Quotes About Glance

Cyrion glanced at the scout, and smiled at him with appalling charm.
~ Tanith Lee
Leopardo Chenti was drinking from a crystalc up and had turned from him, and so Romulan glanced at Mercurio. That face had grown ominously demure.
~ Tanith Lee
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
~ Frank Deford
The moon passes into clouds so hurt by the street lights of your glance oh my heart
~ Frank O'Hara
Basil Ransom had got up just as Mrs. Luna made this last declaration; for a young lady had glided into the room, who stopped short as it fell upon her ears. She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips--it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.
~ Henry James
The light was in her eyes.
~ Henry James
Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to throttle all the birds in creation. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love – just enough to feed the birds.
~ Henry Miller
Such a healthy, simple, approving glance as if he were saying to himself: "Ah, spring is coming!" And God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
~ Henry Miller
But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
~ Herman Melville
Order is, at one and the same time, that which is given in things as their inner law, the hidden network that determines the way they confront one another, and also that which has no existence except in the grid created by a glance, an examination, a language; and it is only in the blank spaces of this grid that order manifests itself in depth as though already there, waiting in silence for the moment of its expression.
~ Michel Foucault
My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake . . . ?
~ Mikhail Lermontov
A stranger, mute, through mists that curled, in beauty clad not of this world, came to her, leaned above her pillow; and in his glance was such a billow, of love and grief, that you'd infer all his compassion was for her.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one's guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that's what I call life
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
~ Thomas Buchanan Read
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
~ William Shakespeare
Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
if looks could kill
~ Bram Stoker
Tim glances over at me and I avert my gaze and an imagined sense of imposed peace washes calmly over the two of us, answering my question.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book. It didn't.
~ Terry Pratchett
The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it.
~ Terry Pratchett
I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be very protective of women,"he said thoughtfully. "You're a woman Dory." "Thank you for pointing that out. But I didn't think dhampirs qualified." Radu smirked. "It appears you've been upgraded.
~ Karen Chance
I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She gave him her most forbidding you-will-obey-me-little-boy-or-die glance. They waged a battle with their glares—his challenging, hers promising divine retribution—until with a gamin grin he leaped to his feet, slipped behind her, and was gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
their eyes flicking all over each other.
~ Karen Russell