Top 100 Look Through Quotes
#1. Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
Stephen L. Carter
#2. If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.
Jane Goodall
#3. I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
Stanley Kunitz
#4. Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. ...Is there ever such a thing as a whole story, or an artist's triumph, a right way to look through the glass? It all depends on where the light falls.
Jessie Burton
#6. You must look through an opportunity and not at it.
Mayur Ramgir
#7. '21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they'd look through, and then you'd murmur the password or whatever it was you had, showed a little ticket, and if they remembered who you were, you went in.
Brooke Astor
#8. There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.
Heather Brooke
#9. People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped Author unknown
Lynelle Clark
#10. Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
Dave Eggers
#11. For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.
Ken Follett
#12. Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.
Penelope Farmer
#13. Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.
Peter Cosgrove
#15. When you look through the window of hate, you are really looking in the Devil's mirror.
Jack Byrne
#16. If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.
Colleen Hoover
#17. I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'
Alysia Reiner
#18. A window of opportunity is not for one to look through but for one to go through.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. If we look through all the heroic fortunes of mankind, we shall find [the] same entanglement of something mean and trivial with whatever is noblest in joy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#21. Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.
Alexander Chee
#22. History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#23. You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.
Susanna Kaysen
#24. The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window.
John Szarkowski
#25. Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.
Kurt Cobain
#26. Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.
Michael Emerson
#27. In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see. Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.
David Brin
#28. I wish my prose to be transparent-I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
V.S. Naipaul
#29. I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much ... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
John Constable
#30. People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself.
Ali Banisadr
#31. As I look through my box of photos, my eyes well up with tears as I hold in front of me, the one of my brother Spence when he was five years old. He looks so cute in his cowboy outfit, drawing his toy pistols as if he were having a showdown with nasty outlaws.
Terra Lorin
#32. Aim for the eye." I say as Marek aims his sniper, "Alright Enya he says as we observe the werewolf down below our watch tower eventually Marek fires he's hit something. I look through my binoculars he's hit it...Just not where I said.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#33. When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
Stephen Covey
#34. When I look through your eyes, I see a disguise, and in that disguise, I see love, and in that love, you are fabulous.
Sahara Sunday Spain
#35. Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the making of signs to look through rather than at.
Robert M. Kaplan
#36. We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
Georges Bataille
#37. When I look through God's eyes at my lost self and discover God's joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. If you want to love God, love the less-fortunate one. If you want to see God, look through the eyes of a hungry child.
M.Padua
#39. Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
Debbie Ford
#40. In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
Bruno Rossi
#41. You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
Phillips Brooks
#42. That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.
Eva Rubinstein
#43. One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
Henry Ward Beecher
#44. Son, you need to look through the scope at the things that are far away, but you also need to take your eye away long enough to see what's close.
Bob Goff
#45. Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#46. My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change ...
Elizabeth Dole
#47. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. I look through the cage ... an absolute beauty of yours ...
Ankur Kumar Shah
#49. He is wounded, but he is still the Leopard, still dangerous. His eyes look through you, until they don't. That's when he'll kill you.
M.C. Scott
#50. If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
Lisa Randall
#51. I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
#52. How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them ... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.
Demetri Martin
#53. If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.
Sonia Choquette
#54. I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.
Iggy Pop
#55. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
St. Lucia
#56. The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality.
Alex G. Zarate
#57. All I know is, he found out you left and he locked himself in the shed and barricaded the door. No one's seen him since," Doug said. "When I bolted, Sean and Evan were trying to boost Caleb up onto the roof so he could look through the skylight and make sure the kid wasn't dead or something.
Kate Brian
#58. Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Herman Melville
#59. When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.
John Kasich
#60. I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
Ray Bradbury
#61. I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.
Davis Grubb
#62. I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#63. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben
#64. If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.
Nellie McKay
#65. You could look through the windows at any one of these people, but you would only ever see what was there, not what wasn't. The losses and absences didn't show, despite so often being the immovable facts around which a life orbited.
Alice Adams
#66. The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.
Dave McKean
#67. If you want to drive ahead, look through the windscreen and drive, not through the rear-view mirror!
Rajuda
#68. We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Deborah Tannen
#69. Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
Rose Macaulay
#70. I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
J.K. Rowling
#71. To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.
X.J. Kennedy
#72. It is bodies that make us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hands to hold?
Laini Taylor
#73. I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.
Sarah Kay
#75. Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?
A.D. Posey
#76. It is bodies that makes us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hand to hold?
Laini Taylor
#77. I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just ... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.'
Moby
#78. Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.
Brian Selznick
#79. The bookseller read Catherine like a novel. She let him leaf through her and look through her story.
Nina George
#80. Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#81. Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
Jack Falahee
#82. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg
#83. I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
William Eggleston
#84. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Andre Agassi
#85. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.
Ned Vizzini
#86. "Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
Margaret Bourke-White
#87. Look through that clump of trees. There's a hawk sitting on the weathervane at the Red Rooster Inn. I've heard that if someone you love very much passes away, they can come back in the form of a hawk, to look after you and give you comfort.
Caroline Fyffe
#88. If you come to the window, and look through the other end, Karsa, you will see things far away drawn closer.' He scowled at her, and set the instrument down. 'If something is far away, I simply ride closer.
Steven Erikson
#89. All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#90. The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white ... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey
#92. If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.
Graham Nelson
#93. Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#94. Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
Richard Lugar
#96. Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless
Lewis Carroll
#99. Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
Vladimir Kramnik
#100. To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.
Debasish Mridha
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