Leer Quotes

#1. You never did master a leer.
- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree

Patricia Sprinkle

#2. Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Daryl Gregory

#3. She's a lot more than nice," Gran said with a leer, "after our last date, I came home with my face looking like a glazed donut. That gal's juices are flowing. She must be on some kind of hormone replacement therapy.

Nick Pageant

#4. Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel's burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.

Dudley Randall

#5. You scratch my back, I scratch yours."
The smile faded into a leer.
"No, you suck my dick, I'll suck yours.

James Buchanan

#6. Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

#7. Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

Alice Munro

#8. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water

A woman's shriek assaults the ear

While above, in the sky, inured to everything,

The moon looks on with a mindless leer

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok

#9. He follows me down, catching his weight on either side of my head so he can leer his face into mine, coiling muscles and immobility at me, I want you to lay into me. Fight me.

Poppet

#10. He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

Michael Chabon

#11. I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman's age in half a minute
and I do

W.S. Gilbert

#12. Oh my God, Val," Lisa groaned. "He is going to chew you up and spit you out."
"Maybe not spit her out," Rachel said, with a leer. "Not if he likes the taste of her.

Nenia Campbell

#13. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig

#14. When the warden appeared outside their cell, he ogled Regin's bared midriff. Gross. Whenever men leered at her, Regin tended to leer back. She canted her head on the floor, turning it one way, then the other. I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Kresley Cole

#15. We could do muscles first, then brains,: Aislin suggests.
"It's not all genetic, you know: he would have to work out."
"Make him right and I'll work him out," she says with a trace of her confident leer.
"Without a brain?"
She sighs. "They're better off without one.

Michael Grant

#16. With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [ ... ]

Charles Dickens

#17. We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused.

Jon Krakauer

#18. I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#19. I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

Gillian Flynn

#20. You're staring.'
'You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.'
'Is that the rule?'
'Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a lawyer.

William Landay

#21. Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Horace

#22. You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

Jodi Picoult

#23. Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to" Queen Maureen said "And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

Jodi Picoult

#24. They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other

Kirsten Beyer

#25. Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

Angelina Jolie

#26. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

Violante Placido

#27. Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

#28. Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Hope Mirrlees

#29. Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.

Samantha Van Leer

#30. Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?
Benedict

Tricia Walker

#31. When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

Abby Wambach

#32. The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?

Samantha Van Leer

#33. I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

Mike Pence

#34. Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

Chris Smith