Quotes About Looking

#1. Service changes people. It refines, purifies, gives a finer perspective, and brings out the best in each one of us. It gets us looking outward instead of inward. Righteous service is the expression of true charity, such as the Savior showed.

Derek A. Cuthbert

#2. I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

Jo Brand

#3. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.

Michael Scott

#4. To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience ...

Thomas Hardy

#5. Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

Mary Oliver

#6. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Vaclav Havel

#7. She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys

Abbi Glines

#8. We were just looking at maps...

Rick Riordan

#9. There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.

Pawan Mishra

#10. I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity.

Ice Cube

#11. A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

Richard D. Zanuck

#12. But Squirrelpaw had the best idea." Squirrelpaw ducked her head, looking embarrassed. "If ever any of you tell the cats back home that I purred at a Twoleg," she mewed through gritted teeth, "I'll turn you into crow-food, and that's a promise.

Erin Hunter

#13. I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

Josh Homme

#14. You know what they call a good looking girl in Philadelphia ... a tourist.

Jerry Lawler

#15. Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

John Bunyan

#16. I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive' ... but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Charlie Kaufman

#17. When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.

Terry Pratchett

#18. We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

Graham Nash

#19. I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

Mary Renault

#20. ...sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind.

Ilona Andrews

#21. How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.

Jim Valvano

#22. I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

Bruce Springsteen

#23. Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

Neil Oliver

#24. You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them.

Pleasefindthis

#25. I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

John McCain

#26. We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

Kevin Lynch

#27. You need to do whatever it takes for you to look in the mirror and be happy with the person looking back." I

N.E. Conneely

#28. I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

E.L. James

#29. I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Russell Crowe

#30. There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

Irene Rosenfeld

#31. I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

Khloe Kardashian

#32. And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lonely whisperings and rustlings and the pattering of feet. The air was sweet with the smell of flowers.

Tove Jansson

#33. Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.

Victoria Schwab

#34. Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,

Tim Kurkjian

#35. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.

Eugene V. Debs

#36. God was there, and yet people believed that they had to go on looking, because it seemed to simple to accept that life was as act of faith.

Paulo Coelho

#37. The women are young, young, young, liquidy and sweet-looking; they are batter, and I am the sponge cake they don't know they'll become. I stand here, a lone loaf, stuck to the pan.

Melissa Bank

#38. My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

Adam Sandler

#39. Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Maxine Kumin

#40. How can you not care?"
"Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Cassandra Clare

#41. It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy going, I thought. Being horny at twenty degrees wasn't all that easy either.

Robert B. Parker

#42. I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Keanu Reeves

#43. Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer

#44. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

#45. Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

John Dewey

#46. Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

Max Lucado

#47. Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Billy Bob Thornton

#48. Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Nell Freudenberger

#49. The discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Madeleine L'Engle

#50. Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

Dwight L. Moody

#51. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Lalita Tademy

#52. True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.

Philip Roth

#53. Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for ... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

Ray Bradbury

#54. It was as if everything else in the world had fallen away for Jace but himself and Clary, and he was looking at her with an unconcealed yearning and desire that made Simon feel awkward, as if he had somehow walked in on a private moment.

Cassandra Clare

#55. When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

Frederick Lenz

#56. No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.

Haruki Murakami

#57. The first thing I do when I walk into a hotel is find the gym, and if they don't have a gym, I start looking for a handhold where I can do my pull-ups. Sometimes if a shower curtain rod is sturdy enough, I'll do them there.

Dean Karnazes

#58. I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Michael Connelly

#59. Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.

Nizar Qabbani

#60. Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#61. I am still looking for a job. They keep telling me I don't have enough experience. But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience? Oh, well.

Sherman Alexie

#62. Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Bruce Springsteen

#63. I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

Cate Blanchett

#64. You can even tell where a person's family came from by looking at the type of bacterium he or she carries!

Jennifer Gardy

#65. But by the way he's looking at everything in the room but me, I think he knows that he didn't really explain why. And by the way I'm looking at everything in the room but him, I know that I don't really need him to.

Gayle Forman

#66. I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

Albert Oehlen

#67. She wants him to want to be looking at her.

Alexis M. Smith

#68. God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me." - The Dreamer

James McBride

#69. The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.

Andy Lane

#70. If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

Francis Collins

#71. I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Anne Rice

#72. I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

Nicolas Cage

#73. I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

Joss Whedon

#74. George and Elaine. Looking

Nicole Stewart

#75. Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Steven Bochco

#76. Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words -- burnt eggs.

Paige Tyler

#77. I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared ... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

Brian O'Driscoll

#78. Oh, Ron! Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. Ron, looking quite terrified, patted her very awkwardly on the top of the head.

J.K. Rowling

#79. The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.

Sarah Brightman

#80. I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Joey Lauren Adams

#81. Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

Guido Molinari

#82. I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

Ben Silbermann

#83. She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.

Robert B. Parker

#84. Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on.

Paul Kalanithi

#85. Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.

Roz Savage

#86. You're looking for the light,
Forgetting
You have an astonishing light,
inside you,
which can enlighten the whole world.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Evie," he says quietly, finally looking at me, "what I mean is, when I fuck you, you're going to be mine. Is that clear enough for you?

Mia Sheridan

#88. How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Jodi Picoult

#89. I think we need to say, 'Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get used to looking for God's glory in each other.

Kevin Paterson

#90. I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Faith Ringgold

#91. People are looking for an answer, and I know that Answer is Jesus Christ.

Eva Burrows

#92. We're both broken people looking for a safe place to land. Maybe this time we've actually found solid ground

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#93. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Jewel

#94. I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#95. I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

Christopher Walken

#96. The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

#97. Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?

Sarah Dessen

#98. Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Method Man

#99. I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.

Tucker Max

#100. I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

Brad Schneider