Looks Quotes
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
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More Looks Quotes
if a girl likes me a lotand starts getting real nervousand suddenly begins asking me funny questionsand looks sad if I give the wrong answersand she says things like,"Do you think it's going to rain?"and I say, "It beats me,"and she says, "Oh,"and looks a little sadat the clear blue California sky,I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.
Richard Brautigan— "It's Raining In Love"
The disciples seem alone; but up yonder, in some hidden cleft of the hills, their Master looks down on all the weltering storm, and lifts His voice in prayer. Then when the need is sorest, and the hope least, He comes across the waves, making their surges His pavement, and using all opposition as the means of His approach; and His presence brings calmness; and immediately they are at the land.
alexander maclaren— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, p. 110)
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
johnny depp
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life...
christian d. larson— Chapter 6, p. 97
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.
— 1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.
The American character looks always as if it just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Joseph McCarthy— 1947 'America the Beautiful', in Commentary, Sep.
I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.
miley cyrus— Reading Eagle (December 20, 2008)
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.
George Steiner— Real Presences, I: A Secondary City, Chapter 6 (1989, p. 38)
There is not wind enough to twirl
The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
— Christabel, Part I, line 48 (1816)
Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
czesław miłosz— "The World": Love (1943), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid blind.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1, ln. 234.
Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
natalie portman
Tut tut, looks like rain.
a. a. milne— From Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), said by Christopher Robin.
Lincoln's bedroom! And you see that great bed, it looks like a cathedral.
Jacqueline Kennedy— On her first night in the White House, in Newsweek, 1 Jan. 1961.
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
terence rattigan— 1952 The Deep Blue Sea. Act I
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein— Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190
You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says, "I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you," and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says, "Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you." This is a miracle.
mark driscoll— Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation), Sermon preached November 6, 2005 at Mars Hill Church.
Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database.
larry ellison— As quoted in "Ellison: Oracle remains unbreakable" CNN (21 January 2002)
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
norman vincent peale— Have a Great Day (1986), p. 2
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.
tim berners-lee— As quoted in "US backing for two-tier internet" in BBC News (7 September 2007)
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That is actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
john green— YouTube video
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
james joyce— "James Clarence Mangan" (1902)
It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
connie willis— Chapter 20 (p. 320)
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 92.
The moon looks on many brooks, the brook can see no moon but this.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies, While Gazing on the Moon's Light.
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
christian nestell bovee— Intuitions and Summaries of Thought, Volume II (1862, p. 52)
The Tantrik approach to self-realization is different from the Vedic approach. The former looks upon the Goddess as Shakti , energy , to be experienced while the latter looks upon the Goddess as Maya, delusion, to be transcended. The former is more sensory , the latter less so.
— Devdutt Pattanaik, in "Myth = Mithya (2008)", p.200
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.
william shakespeare— All's Well That Ends Well, act 1, sc. 1 (1623)
