Quotes about looking

Ed Begley - Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

M. Night Shyamalan -

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

Henry Paulson -

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Barry White -

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

Herbie Hancock -

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Buzz Aldrin -

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

Jose Andres -

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Sugar Ray Leonard -

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

Jon Corzine -

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

Bruce Vilanch -

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Serj Tankian -

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Monique Lhuillier -

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

Guy Finley -

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Mitt Romney -

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis for centuries this was a great mythic theme.

Felix Wantang - God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ the world knew everything about Jesus when they crucified him. The world is guilty. John 16:5-8.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

In broad terms success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking

Marty Rubin -

Look up at the moon don't think about yourself.

B. C. Forbes -

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Harry A. Blackmun -

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Sarah Jessica Parker -

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Henry Ford -

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Samantha Morton -

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

Temple Grandin -

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Amber Le Bon -

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

Ginger Rogers -

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Heidi Klum -

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

John Cho -

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

Vincent Van Gogh -

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Jamila Woods -

I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

Asghar Farhadi -

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Henry David Thoreau -

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Sammy Sosa -

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

Jennifer Connelly -

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

Laura Dern -

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

Kevin Bacon -

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

Tom Hanks -

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

John C. Reilly -

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

Will Poulter -

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'

Anne Morrow Lindbergh -

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Debasish Mridha -

In life, you will always find what you are looking for.

Marty Rubin -

The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.

Marty Rubin -

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising.

Garth Risk Hallberg -

I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each other with a clarity that nothing can alter, not time, not heartbreak, not death.

Elizabeth George - A Woman's Daily Walk with God

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Meredith Duran - Wicked Becomes You

I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.

Peter Clines - The Fold

We're looking for quantum donuts," said Mike.

Christina Engela - Space Vacation

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would

Niall Williams - History of the Rain

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Frank Beddor - Seeing Redd

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Kōbō Abe - The Box Man

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

Abbi Glines -

I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.

Jennifer Niven - All the Bright Places

Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?""What?""A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?""I don't know.""Have you ever had one?""No.""I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

Munia Khan -

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it occurs in the field of the photographed thing like a supplement that is at once inevitable and delightful; it does not necessarily attest to the photographer's art; it says only that the photographer was there, or else, still more simply, that he could not (i)not(i) photograph the partial object at the same time as the total object (how could Kerész have 'separated' the dirt road

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

Theodore Sturgeon - Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a

Deyth Banger -

Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view...

Tarjei Vesaas - The Boat in the Evening

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Lucca Kaldahl -

You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.

Kōbō Abe - The Box Man

When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.

Sunday Adelaja -

God is looking for godly people to send to the world of finances to subdue it for him.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss

Sunday Adelaja -

God is looking for sons to send to the world of business to manage it for him.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images 'spoke too much'; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning from the literal one. Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is (i)pensive(i), when it thinks.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.

Robin Hobb - City of Dragons

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

Junior Seau -

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Virginia Woolf -

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Thomas Aquinas -

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Harbhajan Singh -

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

Jimmy Page -

You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin.

Peter Diamandis -

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

Ryan Lochte -

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

Helen Fisher -

A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.

Shawn Michaels -

You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.

Neil Gaiman -

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

Sean Connery -

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Bette Davis -

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Ivana Trump -

Looking good is the best revenge.

Jamie Dornan -

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

John Derek -

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Elaine Stritch -

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

Umberto Eco -

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

Shakti Gawain -

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Birdy -

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

James Nesbitt -

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

John O. Brennan -

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

Andie MacDowell -

I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.