Top 22 Thousand Yard Stare Quotes
#1. As for me ... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.
Alex Garland
#2. We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
John Lanchester
#3. A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.
Sylvester Stallone
#4. Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
James Lee Burke
#6. Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn't walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture, their head held high and with a serious, yet friendly, look on their face.
Stephen Richards
#7. You might not think it sounds like much of a disguise, but I know a thing or two about people. The world notices pretty, well-dressed young women. And it tries real hard not to see the unattractive, sloppy ones. If you're bad enough, you get the thousand-yard stare that slides right off you.
Karen Marie Moning
#8. It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.
Jayne Castel
#9. In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
Greg Kinnear
#10. I have seen the Lady April bringing
the daffodils,
Bringing the springing grass and the
soft warm April rain.
John Masefield
#11. Awareness is the key to everything. I think it's important to be aware of how you feel. How do you feel after you exercise? How do you feel after you eat something? I try to be mindful of the food I'm putting in my body, the products I use, and what I put in or on my body.
Lauren Bowles
#12. We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.
Casper Van Dien
#13. He has the thousand-yard stare.
Sophocles
#14. This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away.
Chard DeNiord
#15. I want to be like water. Slip through fingers, but strong enough to hold a boat.
Anonymous
#16. West, at the wheel, continued practicing his thousand yard stare. Probably thought it made him look windswept and interesting. Dammit, it did.
Tracey Alvarez
#17. The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara
#19. Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Wayne Dyer
#20. In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
Richard Baxter
#21. You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.
Phil Klay
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