Quotes About Staring

#1. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.

David Wong

#2. Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future.

Charles F. Glassman

#3. Dawson sprang off the bed, but his feet never touched the floor beside it. He hovered, staring down at himself. He was glowing.
Like in full motherfreaking alien mode up in her house, in her bedroom.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.

Rick Yancey

#5. Or maybe they were staring at me as I tried to discreetly wipe sweat from between my breasts without appearing to get to second base with myself. Hard to say.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. You realize you've been staring at me for the past five minutes?

Catherine Doyle

#7. He was staring at me because I practically threw up on myself ...

Inara Scott

#8. Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. She stepped back, staring up into my eyes. "You've given me hope." She ran her hand up my chest. "I don't know how to thank you for that."
I grinned. "You can start by taking my calls.

Lisa Kessler

#10. Leaf was staring down into shadow, and Thunder followed his gaze. The land dropped away into a small ravine. Moonlight pooled at the bottom, lighting a clearing ringed by bracken and trees.

Erin Hunter

#11. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Cinda Williams Chima

#12. I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

Tom Ford

#13. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

Robin Hobb

#14. Just before I look under my bed, I always get a little cold feeling, as if part of me expects to find something staring back at me.
I've probably seen too many Hollywood movies to have any hopes of ever cultivating a healthy relationship with the underside of my bed.

Graham Parke

#15. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.

Libba Bray

#17. You've brushed your teeth," He says, staring at me.
"I used your toothbrush."
His lips quirk up in a half smile. "Oh Anastasia Steele, what am I going to do with you?

E.L. James

#18. As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun.

Jonathan Franzen

#19. I had a weird one a few years ago when I woke up one night, went to the window and saw a girl sitting on the kerb across the road just staring at me. Freaky. We get nice gifts for the kids too. And I've had naughty things. Let's say objects.

Peter Andre

#20. What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.

Alex Flinn

#21. I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.

James Wolcott

#22. I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see.

Kelsey Sutton

#23. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

#24. I'm staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded
and I'm dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the
opposite of blue. I don't want blue. Blue confuses me too much.
Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.

Simone Elkeles

#25. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

James McBride

#26. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.

Nya Wampaze

#27. I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.

Charles Beaumont

#28. ...It is one of the strange truths of life that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves from staring....

Lemony Snicket

#29. A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.

Carole Bouquet

#30. I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

Jim Carrey

#31. It seems like hours pass, both of us staring into each others eyes. I have no idea what she sees that holds her, but I can't look away either. She's giving me the look again, the one that makes me feel like a superhero.

Ashley Stoyanoff

#32. My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Gail Caldwell

#33. His gaze met hers. It was crazy. Dressed down in worn blue jeans and a black shirt, he was the most beautiful man she'd ever seen.
And the moment was sort of perfect.
Even with the deer head staring over his shoulder like a total creeper.

J. Lynn

#34. Weirdly, an image of Adrian's Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it
apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.

Richelle Mead

#35. I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

Hiro Murai

#36. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.

Candace Bushnell

#37. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. But Jackal gave a low, humorless chuckle. 'Oh you bastard.' He smiled, shaking his head and staring up at the barn. 'That's cute. Let's see if you're as funny when I'm beating you to death with your own arm.

Julie Kagawa

#39. I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

Chelsea Handler

#40. I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.

Rick Riordan

#41. You're staring at me again," Ash murmured without turning his head, though one corner of his lips quirked up. His silver eyes danced mischievously. "Is it the uniform? Perhaps I should remove it it it's distracting."
"Behave, Ash." I wrinkled my nose at him, smiling.

Julie Kagawa

#42. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

#43. From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible.

Siobhan Vivian

#44. I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I'm concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#45. The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury

#46. Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

Dave Matthews

#47. Eyes bloodshot, I want to say. Eating a lot of Cheetos. Staring into space. Eating more
Cheetos. It must be love. What else could it possibly be?

David Levithan

#48. I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

Jim Butcher

#49. I don't know how long we stayed frozen in that moment, but it was a long time. Sometimes I think there are parts of us still there, forever staring into the emotional maelstrom of one another's eyes.

Tammy Blackwell

#50. I can feel that photo of Anna staring at me from sixty years ago, and I can't help myself from wanting to protect her, wanting to save her from becoming what she already is.

Kendare Blake

#51. Never keep staring at the dreams you have on the paper ... Don't just live like a spectator. You have the power, you have the mine, you have the skills, you can dribble your obstacles to get your goals moving to the other

Israelmore Ayivor

#52. A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

- ATTICUS

Atticus Poetry

#53. Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

Tia Giacalone

#54. For a long moment, he lay there, staring at a minuscule crack that had begun to reach from one end of the ceiling to the other. Cracks were always there; no matter how well repaired, there would always be weakness.

S.E. Jakes

#55. That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can't hit anything with it, not at that distance."
Staring at her with tears in his blinking eyes, he says, "I did."
Conversation between Alis K and Willy
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#56. She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Ray Davies

#57. Once I had gotten my bearings and turned back to the room in front of me, I found myself staring directly into the eyes of Queen Julia. Well, her and about twenty Hunters who seemed only too happy to display their bouncing balls of crackling orange magic and wicked stares.

Stormy Smith

#58. I can feel you
staring at me," he said in the softest wake-up voice I'd ever heard. "I only
hope you're a girl and not one of the drunken guys.

Piper Shelly

#59. There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

J.M. Barrie

#60. Can I help you with something?"
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.

Cassandra Clare

#61. Staring down at his button fly, he tried to find another explanation. Maybe he'd thrown a clot? A cock clot ... or maybe ... shit ... There was no way he could be attracted to another female.

J.R. Ward

#62. I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

Zach Galifianakis

#63. How to get in trouble #43: I was once caught staring at a woman's breasts, when she asked "why do you keep staring on my breasts?", I replied with "because your face is ugly

Haresh Daswani

#64. Oh my God. What in - "
I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked.
"Mom," Isabel snapped, interrupting. "Do you mind not staring? It's totally perv.

Maggie Stiefvater

#65. If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Wayne Thiebaud

#66. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering

Valerie Tarico

#67. Our concern with history ... is a concern with preformed images already imprinted in our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.

W.G. Sebald

#68. Her gaze collided with the duke's. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?

Carolyn Jewel

#69. Staring at the old woman, while a dreadful thought strolled nonchalantly into her head and gave her brain a cheery wave.

Anonymous

#70. Staring into the mirror, I was surprised to see a haunted look in my brown eyes. There was pain there, pain and loss that even the nicest dress and makeup couldn't hide.

Richelle Mead

#71. Why don't you go get in bed?"
I stood, laying my hand on his chest and staring up at him. "Is that a dare?"
He laid one hand over mine and pull me closer with the other. Leaning down, he kissed me gently. "It absolutely is. No falling out of it allowed, though.

Tammara Webber

#72. The Greeks described her eyes as 'oxlike'. Believe it or not, that was a compliment. It meant she had large, soft brown eyes that you could get lost in. I guess the Greeks spent a lot of time staring at oxen.

Rick Riordan

#73. I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.

Jojo Moyes

#74. Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground.
"Yes," I whispered.
"Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead."
Bran

Juliet Marillier

#75. Wilhelm studied Christoff and Georg. With a fair maiden in their midst, he knew his men too well to doubt their thoughts. He suddenly agreed with the dog. He didn't want them staring at her.

Melanie Dickerson

#76. When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

Alex Grey

#77. I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

Suzanne Collins

#78. If you guys wanted to blend in, you shouldn't have send Dimples here. The way some of the women are staring at him, I might end up having to protect him instead. -Relentless

Karen Lynch

#79. Hey, why you are staring at me with a gaze like something I have done wrong, waiting wrong to be done by me...

Deyth Banger

#80. If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#81. Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Polly Horvath

#82. With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka's hat.
It was a dish of ice cream
tasting like an operating table
with the patient staring
up at the ceiling.

Richard Brautigan

#83. I say, staring at her, quite clearly but muffled by "Pump Up the Volume" and the crowd, "You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling. I

Bret Easton Ellis

#84. The owner of the boom box marches over and turns the music down. He shrugs when he sees me staring. "Hey, noise pollution elicits fewer phone calls to the police than screaming and battle sounds. At least, that's the case in Berlin," he says.

Amy Plum

#85. There had been a trapped thought about to emerge, something essential and unspeakable, released by the mention of those blank-faced soldiers. Now it was all gone but the image: dead boys with limbs akimbo, staring into the sky.

Donna Tartt

#86. If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#87. Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens ... opens the mind.

Dan Brown

#88. During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.

Miriam Toews

#89. What is your name?" she murmured.
He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. "I'm the evil one, in case you haven't figured it out."
"I wanted your name, not your calling."
"Being a bastard's more of a compulsion, really. And it's Zsadist. I am Zsadist.

J.R. Ward

#90. What? Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.

Cassandra Clare

#91. I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

Jack McBrayer

#92. You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#93. I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire.
Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#94. Stars of love burn bright
'till they're ready to die
the broken spend their lives
staring at the sky

Marina And The Diamonds

#95. During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

Mark Hoppus

#96. 'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

Arthur Darvill

#97. And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

Robert Jordan

#98. Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

Laurie Beth Jones

#99. But now she couldn't deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.

Barbara Demick

#100. We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot.

Will McIntosh